Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.  Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 4.



Image: Roman Pomona, a goddess of fruitful abundance, second half of the 2nd century CE at the Naples Archaeology Museum courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributors Dave Hill and Margie Kleerup 

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