1. Morning Contemplation
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Good morning.
There are fewer more famous volcanoes in the world than Vesuvius.
Sitting on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, it’s the only volcano on Europe's mainland to have erupted in the last hundred years.
It’s most devastating eruption that we know of, however, occurred in 79 AD. The Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae, and other settlements were destroyed.
Marcus Aurelius alluded to this disaster in his Meditations as a reminder of impermanence:
