There are no preservatives in Hell-Mart bread and it's one of the few honest products in the store. It's fairly good bread but it gets moldy after about 2-2.5 days.
Whenever I see that mold, I think of someone close and her mother telling her about moldy bread, "Don't throw that away. You can still eat that."
That was a German woman talking to her daughter after WWII. She had lost her husband, a doctor, in the war and had lived with the bombardment. All that was left in her life was her daughter and her music.
People say they know about this or that but I would rather talk to those who have lived it. Their view is almost always different.
My cousin, Haward, has just taken a world tour with his wife, Celia, and it was grand as they saw everything from the high-end spectacles in Manhattan to tiny monasteries in remote China to the outback of Australia and many other things on the way back to home in Scotland.
He shared the entire expedition on Facebook and it was spectacular to behold. This was an education in the width of human endeavor and the scope of it was extraordinary. It felt a bit like a National Geographic tour in going to find the most incredibly cool stuff anywhere it may be. So they did. They saw so many things that you and I will likely never see.
My preference is to embed as I want to feel like I know more about the place and the people and going to see this or that spectacular thing is not so important. Going to the Easter service in Greece with Harry and his family was one of the most precious events in my life and this isn't a better kind of touring, it's just a different way to do it.
If there were any single thing I would wish for people beyond the basics (i.e. health, food, safety), it would be travel. You can't do it with a television as otherwise you would know all about black people just by watching "Soul Train" a few times.
The pseudo-reality that's grown from television is unfortunate as it was sort of real seeing the moving pictures on the tube but now it's really really real with a wall-size screen. Man, I can go the jungles of Borneo with this baby.
Um, no you can't. You're still sitting on your ass eating potato chips and getting fat. This is not the same as going to Borneo.
Do it. The variable is not money as a relatively low-paid staff worker at the University was one of the most well-traveled people in the organization. She planned meticulously for a year and saved to make the move. Then she would go to some incredibly-exotic part of the world and stay there long enough to get some understanding of it. Then she would return and repeat to some other exotic place. Yes, you can do it.
Note: I don't mean exotic in terms of cool bars and beaches but rather something about the culture intrigued her.
Euros don't hate you. Many are really pissed with what America does but the extraordinary thing is they don't hate YOU. They know maybe better than Americans that the government is not the people anymore. Vanessa Redgrave knew it in her Oscar acceptance speech in 1978 (video).
Very often the most interesting people in an organization are not the executives as their motivations are largely the same: money, power, blah, blah. A previous manager was ultra-fat as in pushing two hundred kilos and he went to Fiji with his wife for his executive vacation. He said they ate so well and drank so much and, man, it was a gas.
I thought the consequence of a great deal of eating and drinking would inevitably be gas but what else did you do.
We ate and we drank. In Fiji. It was a gas.
It'd be worth a year of waiting for that, wouldn't it.
It's possible to go to the most incredible places anywhere ... and not learn a thing. If you don't learn a thing then why did you go.
Whenever I see that mold, I think of someone close and her mother telling her about moldy bread, "Don't throw that away. You can still eat that."
That was a German woman talking to her daughter after WWII. She had lost her husband, a doctor, in the war and had lived with the bombardment. All that was left in her life was her daughter and her music.
People say they know about this or that but I would rather talk to those who have lived it. Their view is almost always different.
My cousin, Haward, has just taken a world tour with his wife, Celia, and it was grand as they saw everything from the high-end spectacles in Manhattan to tiny monasteries in remote China to the outback of Australia and many other things on the way back to home in Scotland.
He shared the entire expedition on Facebook and it was spectacular to behold. This was an education in the width of human endeavor and the scope of it was extraordinary. It felt a bit like a National Geographic tour in going to find the most incredibly cool stuff anywhere it may be. So they did. They saw so many things that you and I will likely never see.
My preference is to embed as I want to feel like I know more about the place and the people and going to see this or that spectacular thing is not so important. Going to the Easter service in Greece with Harry and his family was one of the most precious events in my life and this isn't a better kind of touring, it's just a different way to do it.
If there were any single thing I would wish for people beyond the basics (i.e. health, food, safety), it would be travel. You can't do it with a television as otherwise you would know all about black people just by watching "Soul Train" a few times.
The pseudo-reality that's grown from television is unfortunate as it was sort of real seeing the moving pictures on the tube but now it's really really real with a wall-size screen. Man, I can go the jungles of Borneo with this baby.
Um, no you can't. You're still sitting on your ass eating potato chips and getting fat. This is not the same as going to Borneo.
Do it. The variable is not money as a relatively low-paid staff worker at the University was one of the most well-traveled people in the organization. She planned meticulously for a year and saved to make the move. Then she would go to some incredibly-exotic part of the world and stay there long enough to get some understanding of it. Then she would return and repeat to some other exotic place. Yes, you can do it.
Note: I don't mean exotic in terms of cool bars and beaches but rather something about the culture intrigued her.
Euros don't hate you. Many are really pissed with what America does but the extraordinary thing is they don't hate YOU. They know maybe better than Americans that the government is not the people anymore. Vanessa Redgrave knew it in her Oscar acceptance speech in 1978 (video).
Very often the most interesting people in an organization are not the executives as their motivations are largely the same: money, power, blah, blah. A previous manager was ultra-fat as in pushing two hundred kilos and he went to Fiji with his wife for his executive vacation. He said they ate so well and drank so much and, man, it was a gas.
I thought the consequence of a great deal of eating and drinking would inevitably be gas but what else did you do.
We ate and we drank. In Fiji. It was a gas.
It'd be worth a year of waiting for that, wouldn't it.
It's possible to go to the most incredible places anywhere ... and not learn a thing. If you don't learn a thing then why did you go.
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