Another surprise wet event. With a lively southerly blowing all morning I should have been able to anticipate rain, but the long spell of bright and dry threw me off. Wind Alert and other wind maps showed that Whitewater was at the convergence of this southerly flow and a north-westerly flow, creating a kind of trough. The disturbance kept generating itself right overhead, and resulted in quite a nice amount of precipitation.

There’s noting quite like a rainy afternoon. The dimness and the susurration of raindrops on lilac leaves. Beethoven piano sonatas—Pathetique, Moonlight, Pastoral, etc. while trying to read Marcus Aurelius. All leading to a leisurely nap.
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Meditations
These two rules, thou must have always in a readiness. First, do nothing at all, but what reason proceeding from that regal and supreme part, shall for the good and benefit of men, suggest unto thee. And secondly, if any man that is present shall be able to rectify thee or to turn thee from some erroneous persuasion, that thou be always ready to change thy mind, and this change to proceed, not from any respect of any pleasure or credit thereon depending, but always from some probable apparent ground of justice, or of some public good thereby to be furthered; or from some other such inducement.