Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
–Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci’s Note-Books (1906)
Believe me when I say that I try to follow this advice from Leonardo d Vinci.
That’s all I am going to say this morning. Like the painting above, I want to remain evercool in my patience.
Let me add this: It don’t come easy.
Here’s a tune from Ringo to reiterate that point.
Now get out of here before I lose my patience…

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