http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress Straight from the hip Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:27:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The success of a trip can defined by many measure, my weekend in Uruguay, La Barra – truly one of my favorite all time destinations – was not as I expected. The cold was fiercer than I was, and I was nothing but unprepared.  Hence, I spend a lot of ... http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=63 Strange thing is this life and love, and death that is also a part of it which is inescapable – but something we try not to think about. Then are the little beings that come into our life to leave such a lasting impact.  I didn’t set out wanting another ... http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=62 Click to open Gallery Been incredibly slack with the old blog, but I have no internet at home and been way too busy with work and trying to sort all the bits and pieces out in the flat. I now realize why renting a furnished place is so much easier – ... http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=61 And it’s a very weird feeling too – it only hit me the other day, on the street in the city I saw a Buenos Aires billboard and I realized this is it – the moment – that I spent 6 months waiting and hoping for – its here and ... http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=60 The other day, I was heading home as always via the train station surrounded by miserable, badly dressed people – feeling judgmental in an unexplainable way and wondering why….  As I left the station I saw an old lady in a white turban with a chiffon pink skirt and wooly ... http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=58 ‘Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys’ Niebuhr Click to open gallery This goes down as probably the most amazing place that I’ve been lucky enough to have had the chance to visit.  It was everything I had hoped for – other than all the tourists which seem to come as part ... http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=57 http://www.linktv.org/globalspirit/wisdom  I watched through tears, how can we not in the west feel responsible for where we are right now – the mess that we have gotten ourselves into – and the looming question is can we with the same amount of force wake up and make the changes needed. Can ... http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=56 Biggest surprise being back is the amount of complaining going on around me, in LATAM everyone lives in the moment, laughs at the crisis as there is always a crisis – and they enjoy what they do have in the moment. Here I think it’s a Calvinistic society – so ... http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=55 Click image to open gallery Lovely, sunny and ancient. Had an amazing 5 days in Greece, ran around the ancient sites of the Akropolis, Kato Sounio & Delphi. Kept pinching myself – it was incredible to be in the lands of myths, legends, gods and goddesses.  Managed to get in a ... http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=54 Each of us is responsible for the choices we make - and at the end of the day we have to live with that choice  for as long as needed - so I remind myself to be accountable.... I am responsible for nothing less than mylife and the choices in it. http://www.anadiomene.com/WordPress/?p=53