Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil. Hortum, orto in Italian, is the garden where you grow the vegetables. Romans were pragmatic, food for your body and your mind. 🍎🍋🍊
There really is so much beauty in how the food in the garden helps grow the flowers and vice versa. I’m sure there’s a lesson in there 😉💐🌸🌺🌷🌻🌼👩🏻🌾🍑🍓🍒🥑🍌
Of course he didn't factor in needing more help caring for a live-in relative with advancing dementia. I have both a garden and a library. I have no time to give to either. He had servants as a given, I guess.
also, a log cabin made out of the finest small trees from the woods with a porch built by my grandfather, and a garden next to it near a lake with my pets.
I don’t have much of a green thumb, but I do love a beautiful garden. I have my own little home library— just a room, full of shelves and books and little trinkets from my travels.
I "discovered" Plato's Republic when I was about 15 yrs old. loved it and went on to read related material. All the worthwhile, insightful stuff has already been said, time and time again, hasn't it?
If you have good friends with whom share the good and bad thrills of life, you have everything you need to make your sojourn on the face of the earth as pleasant as can be.
Yes.. if by garden you mean a lovely yard with low maintenance and a landscaping company.. well, but the yellow jackets are a bit annoying. I would mostly agree that gardens are the path to a #charmedlife However, it’s not the garden or the book.. It is the peace I find there.
Shout out to Cornwall Libraries, as they now operate as one big library, which is easy to utilise! Also, their BorrowBox offer is fantastic. And then there's their diversification, with many new offers to children, including clubs for Lego, coding and more!
1 : Left alone to get on with what I'm extremely good at meaning ,peace and quiet
2: I'm not bothered about big houses etc just enough space to accommodate previous aforementioned points and totally off grid implying solar inverters etc away from the rat race
Its a good starting point
I like
1: Technical , engineering books to study, learn from
2: Workshop and tools with which to build
3: PC and open source including open source compilers , cad packages printer 3d etc
4: Network connection so that I can learn more
5: And my Cat for company
Library and a market within walking distance. I have so little interest in gardening that it’s sad. I grew up on a small subsistence farm and when I got out of there, I swore I’d not spend my life grubbing in the dirt. I have wonderful gardening friends, though, and I love to see what they’ve done.
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I’m not as good at it as I’d like be, but I’m learning as I go.
Roman Philosopher
Statesman
1%er.
And ALL my loved ones, including those who have gone before.
Like youth and beauty.
Cicero, why have you forsaken me?!
Definitely need an art studio. In my case, a pottery studio.
I'd add a glass of Malbec and a small selection of cheeses?
And possibly a dog asleep on your feet. A good boy.
1 : Left alone to get on with what I'm extremely good at meaning ,peace and quiet
2: I'm not bothered about big houses etc just enough space to accommodate previous aforementioned points and totally off grid implying solar inverters etc away from the rat race
I like
1: Technical , engineering books to study, learn from
2: Workshop and tools with which to build
3: PC and open source including open source compilers , cad packages printer 3d etc
4: Network connection so that I can learn more
5: And my Cat for company
-coffee 🍵