Your Shawshank quote echoes Bob Dylan’s ‘He not busy being born is busy dying.’ (It’s alright, Ma). Interesting categorisation of friends. I’ve survived on very few. It would be lovely to find a few more.
Thanks for the referent to Dylan, Charles! Not really being knowledgeable about his corpus, I missed Shawshank's allusion to one of his songs.
On the categorization of friends, you must be referring to a different piece of mine, in which I briefly summarize Aristotle's threefold categorization of friends into useful, pleasant, and character. It's this last that he regards as the best and that, per its nature, leads to one having relatively few of them.
Yes, I read one after the other and put them together. Catching up. I find your posts very interesting. Sounds like I’m not doing so bad then on the friends front. I’ve got two, not counting my partner, who should be counted really.
I know someone whose personal ritual is to read (passages from) Walden every year on July 4 in commemoration of Thoreau and his own commemoration of Independence Day. Perhaps a new life-affirming practice more of us could try?
Your Shawshank quote echoes Bob Dylan’s ‘He not busy being born is busy dying.’ (It’s alright, Ma). Interesting categorisation of friends. I’ve survived on very few. It would be lovely to find a few more.
Thanks for the referent to Dylan, Charles! Not really being knowledgeable about his corpus, I missed Shawshank's allusion to one of his songs.
On the categorization of friends, you must be referring to a different piece of mine, in which I briefly summarize Aristotle's threefold categorization of friends into useful, pleasant, and character. It's this last that he regards as the best and that, per its nature, leads to one having relatively few of them.
Yes, I read one after the other and put them together. Catching up. I find your posts very interesting. Sounds like I’m not doing so bad then on the friends front. I’ve got two, not counting my partner, who should be counted really.
I know someone whose personal ritual is to read (passages from) Walden every year on July 4 in commemoration of Thoreau and his own commemoration of Independence Day. Perhaps a new life-affirming practice more of us could try?
That's a wonderful idea, K. Joia. Thank you for sharing this suggestion from your friend's ritual!