However, I'm spending this Sunday evening drinking red wine
and watching Eat Pray Love with my sweet little pup.
Which is still pretty nice.
I think this is my new favorite part:
"A friend took me to the most amazing place the other day.
It's called the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains.
When the barbarians came they trashed it a long with everything else.
The great Augustus, Rome's first true great emperor.
How could he have imagined that Rome, the whole world as far as he was concerned, would be in ruins.
It's one of the quietest, loneliest places in Rome.
The city has grown up around it over the centuries.
It feels like a precious wound, a heartbreak you won't let go of because it hurts too good.
We all want things to stay the same.
Settle for living in misery because we're afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins.
Then I looked at around to this place, at the chaos it has endured - the way it has been adapted, burned, pillaged and found a way to build itself back up again.
And I was reassured, maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic,
it's just the world that is, and the real trap is getting attached to any of it.
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
-Eat Pray Love
I really need to read/see Eat Pray Love! Cuddling up with pets and wine? Sounds like a perfect time!
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