cymry | when i'm feeling blue...

i imagine the color of the Mediterranean. i flip through the travel guide for Italy that's taken up permanent residence on my desk. i browse expedia.ca and look at hotels.

i think that, in a little less than a year, i might possibly be sitting on this very terrace on the island of Capri.

Tiberius' obsession with the little isle, an escape from the bustle, smell and dirt of the major Roman cities then as today, begins to make more and more sense to me. i may even, with a little digging, figure out where this was taken from, and manage to make my way there. =)

for some strange reason, this makes me feel better.

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and a few words of advice from the same person who posted that picture...

"Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am-- a reluctant enthusiast-- a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizzly, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for awhile and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards." -- Edward Abbey