Miami Marathon Training – Day 16 of training – 98 more to go

And again 6.5km (4miles). This recovery week ends with another rest day tomorrow, and then I’ll start another week of progressive running. I’m excited!

sad :(

Love and Peace

It’s a cheesy sounding title, isn’t it?!

Love, love, love. I got married 2 months ago to my beautiful wife Rachel. And ever since then I was in a high state of love. She’s my best friend and the best thing that ever happened to me.

I’m in total peace. I’m not freaking out or worrying about anything. Even though some people would say that there are plenty of things to worry about. Currently I’m jobless, practically homeless (my wife are temporarily living with my parents in Switzerland) and I still haven’t gotten a positive word from the grad schools I applied to. But even though these big live changing things are knocking on our door, I feel completely calm and at peace. I just know it will work out for the best.

Telegraph

• finals week
• graduated
• helped my parents around in the U.S.
• cleaned out rachel’s apartment
• cleaned out my apartment
• loaded all our stuff in a 24ft truck
• drove down from Salt Lake City to Angleton, Texas in two days, in a 24ft truck
• got married
• went to Mexico on our honeymoon
• traveled to Switzerland
• started working

will it ever stop?

Wedding Announcement

Kermit and Lillie Licklider

together with

Giacinto and Mariateresa Ferraro

invite you to share in joyful
celebration at the marriage of

Rachel Licklider and Marco Ferraro

Saturday the eight of August
two thousand and nine at three o’clock in the afternoon

Heiliggeist Church
Basel, Switzerland

Dinner and Dance immediately following

Seegarten Park
Münchenstein, Switzerland

Follow-Up on Texas Trip [Update]

I had a great time with Rachel and her parents in Texas. I enjoyed the time off of school and the great company. Here are some pictures: Flickr Pictures

Ich habe ein paar Tage mit Rachel und ihren Eltern in Texas verbracht. Es war gut auszuschalten und die Zeit ohne Uni zu geniessen. Hier geht’s zu den Bildern: Flickr Pictures

UPDATE: Here are some more pictures! Click me

The Nature of Anger

By Marco Ferraro
Honors 2101: Intellectual Traditions I:
Antiquity and the Beginning of the Common Era
Spring 2008
Professor Eric Hutton

Over the course of the past fifteen weeks, we have been reading several texts starting with ancient Greek mythology up to modern day treatise of anger. Two of the more prominent authors we have covered are Aristotle and Seneca, each drastically different from the other in their notion toward anger on the surface. Aristotle also describes anger as a virtuous emotion, whereas Seneca would like to see anger eradicated. However, when analyzed further, the differences between the two are rooted in the nature of anger. Aristotle is convinced that anger is a natural element of the soul, while Seneca disagrees and dismisses anger as unnatural.
The definition for anger given by Aristotle is as follows: “A desire accompanied by pain, for a conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight at the hands of men who have no call to slight oneself or one’s friends” (Rhetoric 1378a30). To this he adds that anger should always be directed toward an individual and not toward ‘man’ in general. To Aristotle, anger is a tool of revenge that is triggered by painful desire. The definition he gives in chapter two of the second book of Rhetoric also includes a “conspicuous slight” or in other words, an obvious insult that has been brought upon somebody without obvious reason. Aristotle continues to give more detailed information on the different slighting methods. He distinguishes between contempt, spite and insolence. Each of the three having its own effect on the victim. Ultimately, anger originates from a disregard of somebody’s feelings or emotional state.

A sick man is angered by disregard of his illness, a poor man by disregard of his poverty, a man waging war by disregard of the war he is waging, a lover by disregard of his love, and so in other cases too. (Rhetoric 1379a19)

Thus, to Aristotle, every man has a predisposition to become angry, because every person may be disregarded in his most personal emotion. It can therefore be said that all men expect sympathy for his situation, but when an unexpected event occurs, anger is stirred.

Merry Christmas 2007

Merry Christmas 2007

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