Six Month Anniversary
It has been six months since we arrived in Provence and I decided to re-post this poem. It has been a dear, old friend to Marc and I ever since my sister Cindy gave it to us years ago.
Cindy was my first traveling partner. In 1983, she and I set out to discover Europe. She had just graduated from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, and was 24 yrs. old. I was 18, and had not a care in the world. Cindy, with all her beauty and knowledge, led us in a spectacular, six month adventure around Europe. Actually, I led in the adventure department-she kept us safe and guided us to discover all the culture, history, art, antiquity, and charm I would have passed up to "check out guys and lay on the beach". We were perfect traveling companions. I got us back stage passes at Rod Stewart concerts in Madrid and Lisbon, a room at the Palace Hotel Madrid-four doors down from Rod, and pushed us to keep on walking when we didn't want to take another step. She took care of logistics and got us from the Artic circle in Scandinavia to the Bavarian Forest, down the Rhine river, through the Alps, to the Vatican, castles in Austria and Switzerland, kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland, hours of art at the Prado, running of the Bulls in Pamplona, and much more. I never imagined the how that trip would change my life. Until I met Marc, she was my best buddy and I love her for "babysitting" me on that journey that gave me a taste of the old world.
Merci... My Sister Cindy...
"Je voudrais cinq billets pour Lourdes"...inside joke-you had to be there!!!
GOETHE
Until one is committed,
It has been six months since we arrived in Provence and I decided to re-post this poem. It has been a dear, old friend to Marc and I ever since my sister Cindy gave it to us years ago.
Cindy was my first traveling partner. In 1983, she and I set out to discover Europe. She had just graduated from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, and was 24 yrs. old. I was 18, and had not a care in the world. Cindy, with all her beauty and knowledge, led us in a spectacular, six month adventure around Europe. Actually, I led in the adventure department-she kept us safe and guided us to discover all the culture, history, art, antiquity, and charm I would have passed up to "check out guys and lay on the beach". We were perfect traveling companions. I got us back stage passes at Rod Stewart concerts in Madrid and Lisbon, a room at the Palace Hotel Madrid-four doors down from Rod, and pushed us to keep on walking when we didn't want to take another step. She took care of logistics and got us from the Artic circle in Scandinavia to the Bavarian Forest, down the Rhine river, through the Alps, to the Vatican, castles in Austria and Switzerland, kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland, hours of art at the Prado, running of the Bulls in Pamplona, and much more. I never imagined the how that trip would change my life. Until I met Marc, she was my best buddy and I love her for "babysitting" me on that journey that gave me a taste of the old world.
Merci... My Sister Cindy...
"Je voudrais cinq billets pour Lourdes"...inside joke-you had to be there!!!
GOETHE
Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy,
the chance to drawback,
always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative
there is one elementary truth
the ignorance of which kills
countless ideas and endless plans:
That the moment one definately commits oneself,
then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favor all manner of
unforseen incidence and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way.
Whatever you can do,
or dream you can, begin it!
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
...Goethe
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
ReplyDeleteAnd thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprise of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
(Thank God you guys are bolder than Hamlet!)