One of the dangers of keeping a notes-and-queries commonplace like this is that people might expect that I would say dark things in bad times and bright words when in the sunlit uplands, but that's really not the case. Perhaps even the opposite. Were a meteorite to head directly for me with legal processes scrawled on it that would translate to certain financial ruin while telegrams arrived from all sides telling me of unfortunate events in others' lives, I would probably muse on some random Greek verb, or mull a line from a play.
Our physical bodies exist so that our minds may exist in freedom. Determination defines; freedom expresses.