Friko's World

Friday 27 March 2009

Golly, I have my first follower.

Welcome and thanks, Karen in Ohio.

What a long way away you are from the UK.

1 comment:

Karen Schlesinger27 March 2009 at 02:58
Thank you! I love your blog. The history you are providing is a rare glimpse of what we, as Americans, never hear about...life in Germany during the war. The story about your father brought tears to my eyes. I can't wait to spend a rainy day with the rest of your posts! Beautiful pictures too.
Karen
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Still, if you must pray for something,

if at every shrine you offer

the entrails and holy chitterlings

of a white piglet,

then ask for a healthy mind in

a healthy body,

demand a valiant heart for which

death holds no terrors,

that reckons length of life as the

least of the gifts

of nature, that’s strong to endure

every kind of sorrow, that’s anger-free, lusts for nothing,

and prefers

the sorrows and labours of

Hercules to all

Sardanapulus’ downy cushions and

women and junketings.

What I’ve shown you, you can

bestow on yourself: there’s one

path, and only one, to a tranquil

life - through virtue.

Fortune has no divinity, could we

but see it: it’s we,

we ourselves, who make her a

goddess, and set her in the heavens.

Juvenal