“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore When I visited the land in November 2018 to be present while they drilled the borehole, I vowed that there will be no more visits to the land in winter. It was just too cold and rainy, not to […]
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” -Epicurus When Michael opened his e-mails this morning, he found an unexpected gift waiting for us. The last communication we’ve had from the Electrician was mid-November. We heard […]
“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living; heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.” […]
“You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” – Carl Jung The two most important things we wanted to achieve in the two weeks we spent on the land at the end of August was to complete the dry walling and get the ceiling up. We knew it was rather ambitious, and […]
transient /tranziәnt/ □ adj. lasting only for a short time; impermanent □ n. 1. A person who is staying or working in a place for a short time only 2. a momentary variation in current, voltage, or frequency We slowed down and stopped across the road from the Shepherd’s house. The gates were open, […]
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”― Roald Dahl “There’s the fox.” I say to Michael as I grab his arm. We stand like two statues in the half-light […]
“Even if you live your life engaged in full, frenetic, rumbustious activity, you cannot avoid coming into contact with others or stumbling over obstacles, however small, or feeling time pass. – from: The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa With the appropriate accompaniment of hand gestures to support his request in English, interspersed with a […]
“What makes life interesting is the unknown. It is the risks that we take every single moment of a single day.” – Paulo Coelho “Did you see the snake?” Michael asked. “What snake?” “The one you nearly stepped on.” “Oh.” I surprised myself by remaining calm. “No.” When we both had a closer look, we […]
“The important thing is never to let oneself be guided by the opinion of one’s contemporaries; to continue steadfastly on one’s way without letting oneself be either defeated by failure or diverted by applause.” – Gustav Mahler “So, what do you do, while Michael is working?” The question cracks like a cricket bat against my […]
“There are the places you wish to go, there are the places you desperately wish you never left, there are the places you imagine you should be, and there is the place called here.” – Padraig O Tuama from his beautiful book In the Shelter The Electrician promised us in an e-mail that he will […]
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