Something was said at work today that reminded me of this:
“For my part, I refuse to hold decisions made in their youth against them, because I wouldn’t want to be held in contempt for all the decisions made by me in my youth.”
From “Seal Team Six” by Howard Wasdin
(You can find parts 1-4 here, and part 5 here.)
Here it is, the day before Thanksgiving and time to write my semiregular post on Autumn. The last was written in mid-October of 2017, over two years ago. I never got around to writing it last year, most likely because this time last year I was looking forward to another trip to Bucharest and not necessarily dreading the season. I was looking forward to the centenary of Romania’s Great Union Day, the parade, the Christmas Market at Piata Constitutiei, the street decorations, possibly a day trip to Brasov, and maybe even a little snow. All of that came to pass, and I had a wonderful time.
For the first time in forever (apologies to Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for borrowing your line), Continue reading “Despre toamnă, a șasea parte (About Autumn, part 6) and Happy Thanksgiving”
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
-Anne Radmacher
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
― Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
“Even more despised than the Brunch People are the vegetarians. Serious cooks regard these members of the dining public—and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans—as enemies of everything that’s good and decent in the human spirit. To live life without veal or chicken stock, fish cheeks, sausages, cheese, or organ meats is treasonous.”
–Anthony Bourdain
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
― Miriam Beard
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – attributed to Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
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