THOUGHTS on practising the discipline of freedom – “combining the right to choose freely, and the gift of choosing wisely”, as renowned conductor Leonard Bernstein once put it. “Freedom means being free to make decisions, to determine on a course. But decision means choice; and choice is impossible without rejection.”
PHOTO JOURNAL Yes, I am aware winter is encroaching on us in the northern hemisphere, but I still have summer stories to tell. Although I spent just over a month in Romania this summer it was crammed with adventures – and I still have many pictures to share. Time to catch up. Here is a photo journal of my hike to the Piatra Mica, the Piatra Craiului’s smaller but no-less-gorgeous sister.
FILM REVIEW Two hopeless guys – almost out of their teens, supposed to start taking life seriously – build a hang glider from stolen parts and sell weed to fund their hobby. Like the hang glider, their lives never really take off. If I’m not mistaken the title of the film literally translates into ‘to the limit of the bottom of the sky’. Few titles sum up the gist of a story so well: whatever little ambition they have always crashes into a wall. ‘The sky is the limit’ takes on a very different meaning with this film.
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