Well, the reflections on Marcus Aurelius are complete. Time to take a deep breath, because getting them all together, from different tattered notebooks and old forgotten computer files, took a bit of work. Perhaps, Providence willing, they will one day be put together as a Kindle text.
The entries on Boethius are still continuing, and the Stoic Breviary blog will hopefully move on with passages from Seneca's On Peace of Mind, and the essays and fragments of Musonius Rufus. Let's see how far we can get with them. One day at a time!
There is a vague hope for eventually also sharing reflections on the Discourses of Epictetus (the Enchiridion was finished a while back), and the complete Moral Letters to Lucilius of Seneca, perhaps even the Tusculan Disputations and the Stoic Paradoxes of Cicero. Most of these, however, were only written out by hand, and would require some rather tedious transcription.
Again, one day at a time! This moment right now is what we have to live, and we all know what happens to the best laid plans of mice and men.
Remember, of course, that none of these reflections were ever intended as scholarly work, but only as informal scribblings and musings. They all said what the author was thinking and feeling at the time, and make no claim to any authority.
They were, in fact, never meant to be read by anyone else at all, but this project has now become something of a family legacy. As long as someone is able to share them, and as long as even just a handful of people read them, they will continue, until there is no more left.
As they say, take what you need, and leave the rest.
Thank you for reading along over the years. We are meant to be friends, bound by Nature, even if we have never met.
—bsc
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