{"id":110948,"date":"2025-07-03T00:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=110948"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:08:25","slug":"living-the-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2025\/07\/living-the-good-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Living the Good Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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This painting, done in 1910, is commonly misidentified as an illustration from \u201cQuo Vadis\u201d depicting a banquet in Nero\u2019s palace. It actually shows the board of directors of the Interpreter Foundation taking a brief break for snacks during last Saturday\u2019s quarterly meeting. (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the reasons for the notorious fact that the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s website rarely if ever posts anything new has now been revealed, with his characteristically piercing insight and financial acumen, by my Malevolent Stalker: \u00a0The Foundation\u2019s financial resources, you see, are largely if not entirely devoted to paying for my travel and my constant epicurean dining out. \u00a0While driving up to Park City this evening, for example, my wife and I found a fine Latin American establishment in Heber City, where \u2014 no doubt paying for it with an Interpreter Foundation Centurion card from American Express \u2014 I washed down a Doritos Locos taco and un petit<\/em> bean burrito with an exquisitely smooth Pepsi Zero (Vintage 2025) on the rocks. \u00a0As a Frenchman might say, thanks to the lavish stipend supposedly provided to me by the Interpreter Foundation I\u2019m living in the beau monde<\/em>!<\/p>\n

As Blanche DuBois says in the final scene of Tennessee Williams\u2019s play A Streetcar Named Desire<\/em> while she\u2019s being taken away to a mental institution, \u201cI\u2019ve always relied on the kindness of strangers.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image of a Mesoamerican battle from the sixteenth-century Tovar Codex
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These three new items were posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation yesterday (I\u2019m a bit behind) and today:<\/p>\n