On Fire

On fire is an apt description of my physical well-being over the last several days. It is no fun to have a fever.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, right? Or instead make my favorite, sour mix for an amaretto sour!

So while my fever was going I used the time to work on two projects that required me to sit and do nothing, which is all I was up for anyway. And there was a bonus VICTORIA!

Commentarii Latinii, Idibus Martiis

Ave, amici! Nomen mihi Gaëlla erat. Gaëlla nomen est quod in cursum linguae gallae do. Sed nunc nomen Latinum reperire necesse est. Nomen de sanctorum volo..........Optavi.

Ave, amici. Quid est nomen tibi? Nomen mihi est Isidora, de Sancto Isidoro de Hispalis.
Quid agis hodie? Bene? Ut valeo? Male mihi valeo quia aegra sum. Caput mihi dolet. Nunc dormitum eo.

Vale, amici!

[Traupman, John C. Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency. Chapter I, Greetings]

In ephippio refero. Back in the Saddle Again.

It would seem, looking at my last post in the Latin category, that I did already write about beginning a Latin Journal. My primary memories of this exercise when I took German are a dazzling display of the confidence that I felt at the end of the first semester when I held my journal in my hand after having successfully written it for seven times a week. The experience had worked wonders, and I could then compose actual German drawn from what I knew and could read and speak. I had moved the studied words into active usage.

Lovely, ne? But the truth of experience is more than the end result.

Victoria dulcior

Victoria dulcior quam omne solacium est.

On our way to Victory. This way to the Arc de triomphe!

Victory is sweeter than any comfort.

Victoria dulcior est: this is the motto for the mission.

I am on a mission to recover, uncover, discover the person that God made me to be. If I am to be an effective witness, I must begin with establishing a firm foundation. How can the dove fly away with no home to rely on. How can the Spirit find a new home within me if I am but a shell of the glory within.

God is no further away than your own heart in which he dwells.