Life expands and contracts in direct proportion to one’s courage said Anais Nin, spot on. From time to time certain things happen in life that make you realise you cant just plod along doing the day to day, you loose track of what’s important and can be easily brought down by the world or those [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Desiderata
Desiderata is a beautiful poem that has helped me through some tough times. It’s as relevant now as it was when it was written in 1920s. Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all [...]
London to Sydney – overland style
In my time here in London I’ve managed to do a fair bit of traveling though not anywhere near enough. There are many must-see places still to do and I’ve always said that when I eventually go home I’ll do it overland. All the way from London to Sydney. Through Europe, the Middle East, central [...]
The day my world fell apart
It was a rainy cold Sunday and my girlfriend and I had just come back from the local convenience shop with a bag full of goodies ready to cuddle up in front of the tv and watch movie after movie. Or so I thought. I could tell she wasn’t happy about something but she’d been [...]
No bombs today
Sitting at the tube station today waiting for the Richmond bound district line in a half hungover and tired daze, I was blankly watching one of the station cleaners picking up rubbish when he went to change one of the rubbish bags that hang from the yellow mounted bag holders that you see all over [...]
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