“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy at home.” Anton Chekhov A reasonable drive ahead of us today. We head out for a run and get in some breakfast and a few coffees. On the road at 8.30 am. It is a six hour drive to Budapest. About half an hour…
Category: Germany
Schlafen
“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense” Franz Kafka I sleep and sleep. I slept through the night. When dawn broke through the curtains, I went back to sleep. When Shell held me, I went back to sleep. Dreamless, deep sleep. I can’t remember sleeping like this. “Sleep…
Running Man
“Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight” Vladimir Nabokov I slept poorly. Our air conditioning system kept turning off, making it a particularly hot night. It’s a cool, overcast morning, and all I want to do is run. An odd feeling for someone who does not enjoy running. Or…
Demographics
“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.” Simone de Beauvoir I wake up with a slight hangover. It is early, and Shell wants to go for a run before it gets too hot….
Bad Füssing – Germany
“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…
Spitz and the Wachau Valley
“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only…
Bad Füssing
“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.” Jean-Paul Sartre Wednesday Breakfast is included but there are no eggs. It is time to leave the mountains of Austria and head for wine…
Lech am Alberg – Austria
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.” John Muir Sunday A better night’s sleep for Shell. Breakfast provided. Today we head for Austria. The most western state, Voralberg. Our village is at 1700 m elevation and in the…
Meditation and Medication
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing ‘we’ can do — but who is that ‘we’? — and nothing ‘they’ can…