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Welcome to The Epic! I am launching this blog as a manifesto for and a guide to living well. The title and motto of the blog are taken from the Epicureans, at least some of whom believed in the notion that not one minute of the future was guaranteed to them and that as a result they had the duty to live life to its fullest every moment.

I believe in discovering fun and pleasurable things wherever I find myself each day and I am told I have a knack for unearthing them. My hope is that by sharing in my pleasures and some of my ways of finding them you will begin to collect all the riches that lie in the moments of your life. They are there. Take them! All our lives should be.....Epic.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Hospital Days

I have been spending a lot of time at the hospital lately.

Driving out of the hospital parking garage every day makes a person very much aware of how happy a thing it is to be healthy. And to be free to drive around with the car windows open. And to feel the sun on your face.
But these are guilty pleasures. Purchased with the sorry currency of someone else's misfortune. And of the lucky suffering that leads to health. I thought of those last two sentences tonight as I was the one driving home. I liked them so I share them with you. I am not particularly proud of them. But they are true all the same.

4 comments:

Easy and Elegant Life said...

No kidding. Each time I get released from my checkups at Massey Cancer, I have a moment of relief, several of survivor's guilt, and then a euphoria. Especially if I can open the sun roof and look forward to a lazy luncheon.

Main Line Sportsman said...

Here is hoping you spend much less time there and you and your's have no reason to be there...

CashmereLibrarian said...

Thinking of you and the Irish redhead...

Donna said...

Hope things are better for you and your wonderful lady.