So there's two competing philosophies between "Fool me once, shame on you; Fool me twice shame on me" and "Turning the other cheek". One says that we should learn from our mistakes and if we make the same ones again, it's kind of our fault, the other says that we should give things a second... Continue Reading →
The Depressed Hairdressers
I visited the very south of South America once, a town called Punta Arenas. It was the way in and out of the Torres del Paine park, where I was going for a trek. Punta Arenas is windy, a lot of the time. It made it to no. 4 of the world's windiest cities on... Continue Reading →
The Old Man
He sat on his front porch and didn't understand the world in front of him anymore. It was morning, and he'd taken a newspaper and a cup of coffee to watch the world go by, and there wasn't even much of that. There were hardly any cars coming into town. All the shopping was out... Continue Reading →
The Ant and the Grasshopper
In a beautiful meadow, there lived an ant and a grasshopper. The ant worked all the time storing food for winter and while the grasshopper sang and danced. Sometimes the ant would pause in his work at listen to the grasshopper sing. It was a lovely song, and made him think about when he was... Continue Reading →
Moove your cow, and your mind will follow. 