A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Yesterday's sudden extreme hailstorm seems but a figment of the imagination today. The main attraction for students, kittens, and children at the villa today was the green lawn, heavily carpeted with dainty margherite flowers, excellent material for daisy chain crowns!
I ventured outside the gates but once, to get some stronger allergy medicine to combat the pollen of these beautiful Spring things. But I did also take a side stroll to the Villa Sciara, to view the stone nymphs, satyrs, fauns, and sphinxes frolicking in their perpetual Spring (media on IG).
Liturgical: Thursday of the third week of Lent Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all the ways that I command you,
so that you may prosper
Sanctoral: Perpetua and Felicity, +203 Martyrs in the amphitheater at Carthage
Human: 161 AD- the Emperor Antoninus Pius died and was succeeded by his adopted son Marcus Aurelius. Both were considered part of the so-called "five good emperors" and were stoic philosophers.
321 AD – The Roman Emperor Constantine issued the dies Solis edict, which established Sunday as a weekly holiday from work in offices, crafts, and trade, but did not prohibit necessary work in agriculture. The ordinance changed the length of the week (until then it was an 8-day week, the nundinae) and sanctioned the Christian custom of celebrating on the first day of the week (Sunday).
Natural: Carpets of margherite flowers at the villa!
Quote: "Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts." --Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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