“Year after year he wondered if he should go back and year after year felt it all recede from him past hope, past endeavour . . . He could not find his way back there.” Iris Murdoch A good night’s sleep. We shower and take a slow walk to Boogie Lab. This has been our…
Month: March 2025
Zagreb Diversion
“Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength;mastering yourself is true power.” Lao Tzu Another 11 hour sleep. We lay in bed. Watching the footy and reading. Today, we leave for Zagreb—a couple of days in the city. I always like Zagreb. After we finished our ride, we stayed in a tiny…
Time is Standing Still
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.” Kurt Vonnegut Another 10 hour sleep. I wake up slowly, then lay and doze. This is the way. Time has slowed. Everything lasts longer with nothing to do. Another winery today, Fakin Wines. First, breakfast. Eggs and truffles on sour dough….
Ročka Konoba
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” Ernest Hemingway Almost 11 hours of sleep and I feel much better. The sun coming through the open window, birds chirping, the breeze on my face, but it was the church bells that woke me. We lay in bed…
Fog
“In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for…
Leaving Ljubljana
“The city exists and it has a simple secret: it knows only departures, not returns.” Italo Calvino I don’t remember going to sleep. This is how I woke up. Shell – Are you awake. Grant – Not really. I guess so. Shell – Well, I’m not. So, go back to sleep. Grant – OK It’s…
Lazy Ljubljana
“The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I wake up to the sound of rain and go back to sleep. The sun is up when Shell decides it is time for…
Slovenia
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.” Jack Kerouac You never sleep well with a bottle of wine and two pizzas in your gut gurgling away. Pizza is an ocean of salt, so you spend the night…
Becoming Budapestiek
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.” Kurt Vonnegut I wake up at 3.00 am. I have always struggled with jetlag. Shell can sleep through a cyclone. I listen to…