Posted in Life Skills on Dec 16th, 2011
Well, Lord Byron had money – do you? The life of the bohemian adventurer is still open to you but you’ll have to find ways to come up with the cash to support the lifestyle. When I was 18 I hitch-hiked alone from Cape Town to Cairo. I raised the money to do it by [...]
Posted in Kuan Yin, Labrador, Life Skills, Sailboats, Sailing on Dec 9th, 2011
Staying happy in the face of endless delays How to keep smiling in the face of endless delays and discouragement Voyage to Ungava 9 – first of 3 Few situations are more frustrating than endless delays when you’re trying to move ahead with an important project. Each little delay may seem petty in itself and [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Life Skills, Sailing on Nov 17th, 2011
You don’t have to be a sailor to admire the extraordinary accomplishments of Sir Ernest Shackleton. His example as a leader is outstanding and the story of how he brought back alive all 27 members of his expedition after their ship was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica can [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Life Skills, Sailing on Nov 12th, 2011
Next time you’re having a hard day, the world is dumping on you and you need some inspiration to get yourself moving again, read Sir Ernest Shackleton’s account of his “failed” expedition to Antarctica. I keep a copy of his book “South” on “Kuan Yin” for just such occasions when I need to grit my [...]
Posted in Life Skills, Sailing on Oct 3rd, 2011
Many people – mainly men – dream of buying a boat and sailing away. Yet of the few who actually do, I’d guess from my own observations that most of them end up selling the boat and living back on land with two or three years. I’ve come close to it myself in the last [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Hermits, Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills on Oct 1st, 2011
Reposted from English Russia Romance of the Hermit’s Life Posted on January 7, 2011 by zontic This 60-year old man is a hermit living in a thick forest somewhere in the Novgorod Region. What made him (and all such people) choose this way of life? Nobody knows…
Posted in Current Affairs, Life Skills on Sep 24th, 2011
Little Ricky is now three years ago! He’s a Thai boy who was almost abandoned in an orphanage in Bangkok when his single mother could not look after him. Instead mother and child came to stay with two friends of mine and they ended up adopting Ricky and hiring his mother as their maid. Everything [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Hermits, Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills on Sep 12th, 2011
photo by Carlo Bevilacqua Anyone who knows me or looks through the tags of this website will know of my fascination with hermits and my own enjoyment of solitude. So there will be no surprise that I’m posting a link to a set of 60 striking photos of hermits in several different countries by Italian [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Hermits, Hermits & Solitude, Life Skills on Sep 3rd, 2011
Xploring Hungary: Hermit Caves (Remetebarlang), Mátraverebély “These hermit caves were begun in 1756. Carved into the soft stone there are a total of a dozen caves that consist of two chapels, a kitchen, a pantry, bedrooms and what served as a toilet. The hermits themselves lived in these caves during the 18th century, although it [...]
Posted in Equipment, Kuan Yin, Life Skills, Sailboats, Sailing on Aug 30th, 2011
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