Still not a stoic

Have you ever said to someone who asked you how you are: 'I feel old' and have them respond 'It's better than the alternative'(i.e. death) and felt like socking them in the jaw?

I would like to be a stoic, but I can't seem to manage it. Last night I was awake for three hours with aching legs and feet. 

This morning is foggy, and in London, too many MPs are behaving like ill-disciplined children at wet playime.

Be that as it may (lower case) we have had some fabulous sunny days this week and some stunning sunsets.

When I was driving home from Sheffield over the hills at 3 p.m. on Wednesday the sky looked like this:

and on our lane 90 minutes later it looked like this:

"Let’s love today, the what we have now, this day, not

          today or tomorrow or

yesterday, but this passing moment, that will

          not come again."

James Schuyler, from A Few Days