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11-SEP-2008 Violet Bear

Itinerant meditations

Bearshire (UK)

Sometimes, when I have to go to the village, I prefer to walk, rather than drive my car.
Of course at my age it takes a little bit of effort, but it’s also a good opportunity to meditate.
It’s not so appropriate meditating too deeply when one is driving.
Once I found myself and my car in the back garden of Professor McLivet’s home, while I was supposed to be along the country road...
But walking across the fields is safe for thinking things over.
I consider the action of thinking the highest activity we can practise and I dream utopianly that the world could be run by wise philosophers who put the value of logic and search for knowledge before the importance of showing off and the greed for power.
What I appreciate in the concept of philosophy is that one doesn’t receive the supposed absolute truth as an already packed up item, like the vegetables we buy in supermarket, but one gets the tools to use one’s own brain and to find the direction by themselves, without any guarantee of finding the absolute truth either.
Also in speculation, I think, what is worthy is the trip not the final goal.


In my rural walks nevertheless I try hard to keep a little elegance, I would never go around if I were not properly dressed.
Oh, I have to leave you...I've almost arrived.


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Denis Vincelette28-Sep-2008 22:24
You are very pretty Aunt Violet ! Elegant and pretty in this beautiful yellow dress ... and this beautiful field !
Isabel Cutler11-Sep-2008 19:55
What lovely fall colors you're wearing, Aunt Violet. Watch out for the bees! They will be attracted to the yellow in your outfit!
Isabel
Marjan Schavemaker11-Sep-2008 06:36
Have a nice day at the Professor's, Violet! V