Month: December 2013
Be a Happy Fish In the Ocean of Infinity
I find it so important to keep a cosmic perspective on life. It’s all too easy to drown in the immediacy of our everyday stresses and problems. We modern humans are, largely, automatons in the sense ...
Asheville Has Got It Right
Asheville, North Carolina, is the echo of the Hippie shout of the 60s. Everywhere you look, hand bills urge residents to keep it local: local art, local food. The residents support their own. There are eighteen ...
Alain de Botton said …
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go. (Alain de Botton)
The Blue Ridge Parkway
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a very special piece of American scenery. It was conceived and started by President Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression as part of the government’s efforts to put people to work, ...