“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” Henry Miller Up early for a run. It is a warm morning and it is tough going. I can’t be bothered with breakfast. We walk to the town square and I order a coffee that comes…
Month: July 2025
Guebwiller – France
“They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.” F. Scott Fitzgerald I slept well. Our place has floor to ceiling windows on two sides, and I thought the light would keep us awake. Somehow, in the heart…
All Roads Lead to Burgundy
Burgundy for kings, champagne for duchesses, claret for gentlemen. Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord It shocks me how quickly my body loses conditioning. It probably shouldn’t. I am old, I am eating terribly, and I have been drinking mightily. It is devastating what regular alcohol does to the body. Still, I am only a week…
Sondrio – Italy
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.” Jack Kerouac It’s a strange feeling leaving a place you visit often. Not just the village, but the apartment. It’s easier to leave knowing you’ll be back. I slept well with…
Ročka Konoba
“Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some…
In Search of Fruit
“Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing who’s at the other end of your food chain to not caring – to the carelessness of both producers and consumers.” Michael Pollan We have run out of fruit. Today, we are in search of more. Light through the window wakes…
Summer in Grožnjan
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” F. Scott Fitzgerald We wake up and head out for a run. A slow 5km in the warm morning…
South is North
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu Breakfast at Zërgë Coffeeshop before we head to the airport to pick up the car. A change of plans and a change of…
Early Mornings
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” Henry David Thoreau Shell wants to run this holiday. I have not run in over four years. I am sure I will be fine. I have long been an advocate of strengthening the mind…