Stuff unrelated to food, wine & spirits that I just feel like posting.
“Whereas some of my contemporaries may be satisfied to embrace aging gracefully as part of the cycle of life, that is not my view. It may be ‘natural,’ but I don’t see anything positive in losing my mental agility, sensory acuity, physical limberness, sexual desire, or any other human ability. I view disease and death… Read More Half Century, Nowhere Near Halfway
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.” – Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Buenos Aires – It’s amazing how time flies. It’s been more than two years since I posted a little walking tour along Avenida de Mayo and mentioned some of the beautiful Beaux Arts style… Read More 30 Minute Ascent to Paradise
In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to… Read More The Supremes – Track 2
“I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.” – Ogden Nash Buenos Aires – The city of Buenos Aires has declared war on billboards, with the intent to remove some 60% of them, roughly 40,000, from the various… Read More Signposts
“The people? They are the dust you draw your circles in. THOSE are the people! Sicilians are hopeless. I mean exactly that! Nothing changes here… EVER!” – Abbot Manfredi, in The Sicilian (1987) Buenos Aires – As I mentioned the other day, I found myself walking around Plaza Sicilia, on the chance of sighting a… Read More The Sicilian Connection
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson Buenos Aires – It’s one of those quirky little things that somehow or other doesn’t even register. I’ve wandered through the parque Barrancas del Belgrano (the Belgrano riverbank, which is what the site of this park used… Read More Lady Liberty
“Although the Assembly of 1813, as a representative body, did not comply with its fundamental objective of sanctioning a constitution, it developed a vast legislative activity pro individual freedom and constituted the opening into new institutional modes. From the point of view of the political organization, it established a Unipersonal Executive Power, creating the position… Read More The Supremes – Track 1
“Se es mas feliz viviendo en una cabana dentro de un parque que en un palacio sin jardin.” [One is happier living in a cabin in a park than in a palace without a garden.] – Carlos Thays, French landscape architect Buenos Aires – Despite having designed some of Buenos Aires’ most important parks –… Read More Park Designer Park