He borrowed a friend’s country villa, brought his mother and his students, and spent the time arguing about happiness. A model for any summer retreat.
It happened in November, not July. But the spirit of what Augustine did at Cassiciacum in 386 is exactly what summer is for—and what most of us, with our phones and our half-read novels and our inability to stop checking email, fail to manage even when we have the time.
He had stepped away from his career. Augustine had been teaching rhetoric in Milan, one of the most prestigious academic posts
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