Daily Archives: 8 March 2006

EXCERPT:
A long time ago, one of my Latin profs told me that as I got older I would appreciate Horce more and more. He was right. Not only do I appreciate him more and more, my life is beginning to resemble his more an more, oddly enough. Horace, at a certain point, wanted to leave the bustle and pressure of Rome and just retire to his country house. I live in Rome. Right now I can turn my head a few degrees and gaze out my window across Father Tiber to the Vatican Hill, now decorated with the famous little chapel. Yet I too long to return to my “Sabine farm”, where there is peace and clean air, time to reflect and write and pray, receive guests and reach for the book I want in my own library of several thousand volumes. *sigh* Continue reading →

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