Posted in Current Affairs on Feb 3rd, 2012
Decadence and Disconnection In the last few days, two separate incidents have reminded me yet again of the extraordinary times we are living in. A veritable “fin de siecle” – the end of an era. The phrase comes France at the end of 19th century – just before Two World Wars, A Great Depression and [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills, Sailing, Solitude on Jan 30th, 2012
Are You a Nomad? What’s your definition of a nomad? Someone who travels from place to place? Among the last remaining sea nomads, about 2 – 3,000 Moken live along the west coast of Thailand and Burma I don’t think any definition can usefully include constant tourists – people who go places and then go [...]
Posted in Life skills, Solitude on Jan 28th, 2012
I’ve written before about the “Hermit Writings of S” and posted his script in its entirety on this site. See here. In order to bring his writings to a wider audience, I’m going to post extracts from the Hermit Writings according to various themes which he himself used as sub-titles. They’re intended as bite-sized chunks [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Life skills on Jan 13th, 2012
Quote of the day: “Live all you can….” When I first started blogging my website was called “Life is Your Adventure”, so it’s inevitable that this quote from author Henry James caught my eye this morning. In the novel, the character Lambert Strether declares: Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t [...]
Posted in Labrador, Life skills, Sailing on Dec 31st, 2011
How do you respond to delays and setbacks? Voyage to Ungava 10 (3 of 3) However much we might want to keep putting a smile on things, we can all sink into deep lethargy and depression when all that seems to happen every day is for yet more problems to arrive. What to do then? [...]
Posted in Life skills, Sailing on Dec 30th, 2011
How to keep smiling in the face of endless problems Voyage to Ungava 10 (2 of 3) It was towards the end of July before I was finally able to leave Englee and head north. By then it was already too late in the summer to consider trying to get north in Labrador. It’s not [...]
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 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 Books/Language, Current Affairs, Life skills on Mar 5th, 2011
The unglossed truth is that we meet few truly remarkable people during our lives. Yes, everyone is special and unique, etc. but for someone to be “remarkable” is not only a statement about the person but about the person making the statement. Being “remarkable” – much like beauty – is in the eye of the [...]
Posted in Life skills, Solitude on Feb 5th, 2011
I’ve written before about the “Hermit Writings of S” and posted his script in its entirety on this site. See here. In order to bring his writings to a wider audience, I’m going to post extracts from the Hermit Writings according to various themes which he himself used as sub-titles. They’re intended as bite-sized chunks [...]
"Serendipity" is the art of finding something valuable or delightful when you're not looking for it. It's how you might also define living life as an adventure - which is something I seek to do each day - and accepting whatever happens, happy or hard.
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