The Daily Stoic - It Keeps Coming and Won’t Stop Coming

Episode Date: June 25, 2020

"In March, Brent Underwood thought he’d found the perfect place to ride out the pandemic: a small California ghost town he’d been slowly renovating and turning into a resort. It was safe and isolated, beautiful and quiet. Then a freak series of snow storms trapped him there in Cerro Gordo for weeks with dwindling supplies and no running water. His retreat turned suddenly into a prison. Then he had a bout with appendicitis that required him to drive himself 2 hours to the closest clinic.As we’ve said before, life comes at you fast."Hear the rest of the story in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanholidayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanholiday/Facebook: http://facebook.com/ryanholidayYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. It keeps coming and it won't stop coming. In March, Brent Underwood thought he'd found the perfect place to ride out the pandemic. A small California ghost town he'd been slowly renovating and turning into a resort. It was safe and isolated, beautiful and quiet. Then a freak series of snowstorms trapped him there in Sarah Gorda for weeks with dwindling supplies and no running water. His retreat turned suddenly into a prison. And then he had about a appendicitis that put him in the hospital

for multiple days. As we've said before, life comes at you fast. Indeed, that's what Brent told us on a recent episode of the Daily Stood Podcast. But then it seemed that things were getting back to normal. The rest of the snow melted. He helped us launch our live-time, dead-time challenge, which raised money for victims of the pandemic, work progressed on the town, media attention poured in. Last week, the New York Times profiled him in the town in a long awaited peace. And then before he even had time to send the article

to his family, the town's crown jewel, the American hotel, burned to the ground, exactly 149 years from the day it opened, from triumph to disaster in a matter of hours. Seneca himself tells the story of Rome burning to the ground and how the city of lions came to her aid with a large donation, just as some friends of Brent have set up a GoFundMe page to rebuild the hotel. But little did lions know that within a year, Rome would be returning the favor because lions itself had burned. These are the lessons we must take from history as well as from current events.

Life is unpredictable, yet somehow very predictable. Life comes at us fast, it doesn't stop, it puffs us up, and it brings us low. It blesses and it curses us. All we can do is be ready. All we can do is pick up the pieces and keep going. And if you want to follow the journey of the rebuilding of Saro Gordo, you can check it out on Instagram,

it's saro.gordo.ca. And of course, if you're interested in contributing to the GoFundMe, I'm sure Brent would appreciate that. Just search Saro, that's C-E-R-R-O, Gordo-G-O-R-D-O, and GoFundMe and it should pop right up. I hope everyone else has slightly better luck over the next few months. Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad-free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery

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