keeping one's appropriate balance

keeping one's appropriate balance

fiction
edward w pritchard

The Italian's have "la bella figura" meaning one should always look properly good in the sense of being irresistible, appropriately dressed, and making a memorable presentation in each and everything one is, delivers or does.

The ancient Chinese had yin and yang. Proper balance in everything.

Aristotle and the Greeks proclaimed the golden mean.

I once told my children when they were young to keep your balance as a sort of running joke as when they were jumping about breaking up the furniture to " keep your balance" [in life] . The first rumblings of their philosophical training from the old man.

As for me, the most memorable Italians [after Giorgione, the painter of "the Tempest" and Antonio Gramsci, the Marxist was St Francis of Assisi a simple man.

Keep your balance my children.