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 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 Life skills on Jan 3rd, 2010
Other people’s words can really inspire us. Remember Winston Churchill’s famous speech to Harvard students. It had just seven words. “Never, never, never, never, never give up!”
"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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