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VOSS-Reaching New Heights in Norway‎

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DRAMATIC is the best way to describe it..Stopped by Voss for the Ekstremsportveko 2010 Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice." Saving the world and other extreme sports From Alpha Sparkling Voss to Omega 3 Catch of the Day Salmon I am on a see food diet

VOSS-Reaching New Heights in Norway‎

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DRAMATIC is the best way to describe it..Stopped by Voss for the Ekstremsportveko 2010 Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice." Saving the world and other extreme sports From Alpha Sparkling Voss to Omega 3 Catch of the Day Salmon I am on a see food diet

Norway's Western Fjords-The Eloquent Sounds of Silence

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If Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool, then Norway is  solitude by the fjords. It's a wonderful thing to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place like this where you don't know a soul; where,  as Mellvile said, "God's one and only voice is Silence." Progress is our own ability to complicate simplicity and castles in the air are so easy to build . Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth 'you owe me'. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky.

Norway's Western Fjords-The Eloquent Sounds of Silence

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If Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool, then Norway is  solitude by the fjords. It's a wonderful thing to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place like this where you don't know a soul; where,  as Mellvile said, "God's one and only voice is Silence." Progress is our own ability to complicate simplicity and castles in the air are so easy to build . Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth 'you owe me'. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky.

Denmark-Escape To Reality

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The Geography Of Bliss Nothing is rotten in Denmark, and  Copenhagen  is perhaps the most beautiful place for Being There. Sorry Disneyworld, but this country is the happiest place on Earth simply because  Danes  have relaxed and lowered their standards .  Depression is the inability to construct a future. Yet, for Danes, the future is not only already here, it's also evenly distributed. Paid to go to college,  state-covered health insurance, one year of maternity leave and babies so safe that they're left outside alone...Yadi Yadi Yada, folks here  have enough quo in their status and  living is as predictable as an episode of Seinfeld. Consequently, they're lige nu.” Lige nu is a Danish phrase that means literally “just now”.  They would make good buddhists because they are not on the treadmill of  consumption or chasing the happiness jackpot. They are pragmatic and busy ppl,  tracking  ...

Denmark-Escape To Reality

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The Geography Of Bliss Nothing is rotten in Denmark, and  Copenhagen  is perhaps the most beautiful place for Being There. Sorry Disneyworld, but this country is the happiest place on Earth simply because  Danes  have relaxed and lowered their standards .  Depression is the inability to construct a future. Yet, for Danes, the future is not only already here, it's also evenly distributed. Paid to go to college,  state-covered health insurance, one year of maternity leave and babies so safe that they're left outside alone...Yadi Yadi Yada, folks here  have enough quo in their status and  living is as predictable as an episode of Seinfeld. Consequently, they're lige nu.” Lige nu is a Danish phrase that means literally “just now”.  They would make good buddhists because they are not on the treadmill of  consumption or chasing the happiness jackpot. They are pragmatic and busy ppl,  tracking ...

Russia- Picasso was Right-It takes a long time to become young

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Everything you can imagine is real-Picasso Everyone Wll Be Famous For 15 Megabytes Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Painting was just another way of keeping a diary. Picasso would have been huge on twitter and blogger! Afterall, Markets are conversations, and  blogs are just naked conversations.  Pablo's 15 megabytes of fame...Someday, someone of great importance would have said  to him, "You get paid for this?"... The New Plagerism- From Xerox to infinity. What's the meaning of a digital life? Get one.  I´ve alway been a cut and paste guy- a kind of cultural pludering  of whatever is happening in the internet, where the online Superpower google, delivers me an answer in less than five seconds. It´s  like an information prospector mining for gold or drilling for oil-an exploitable resource. The original is just as valuable as the copy. In fact, the copy is better than the original, especially when you don't have to pay for it....

Russia- Picasso was Right-It takes a long time to become young

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Everything you can imagine is real-Picasso Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Painting was just another way of keeping a diary. Picasso would have been huge on twitter and blogger!

Let The Orinoco Flow- One Year @Sea

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In answer to the Question, " How long has he been drifting?" Celebrating One Year at Sea this week.  It started in Rome Sweet Rome, then Santorini...I haven´t been everywhere, but it´s on my list. Those who float away their lives on ships are forever journeying, and their homes are wherever their travels take them . Basho Narrow Road To The Interior... Asleep in Germany. Summer's sea-castaway floats Awake  in Denmark. As the vagabond wind,   Whispers over the bay. Songs and Laughter Carry away in the sky. This week in WarnemĂŒnde with the Roy-ales Truddie Reif and Steffi and Captain Hops looking very stout.

Let The Orinoco Flow- One Year @Sea

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In answer to the Question, How long has he been drifting? Celebrating One Year at Sea this week.  It started in Rome Sweet Rome, then Santorini...I haven´t been everywhere, but it´s on my list. Those who float away their lives on ships are forever journeying, and their homes are wherever their travels take them . Basho Narrow Road To The Interior...  Sleep in Copenhagen. The Ocean is my Ocean. Awake  in Germany. This week in WarnemĂŒnde with the Roy-ales Truddie and Steffi and Captain Hops looking very stout.

FlÄm- Enriched by a Wonderful Osmosis

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Free For All- H2O In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria. Unless of course you are in  Norway-- where meltwater  is useful,  humble, precious, and pure.The best wine may be the oldest, the best water, however, is  the newest. With cupped hands, drinking  melted glacier. It's pure inspiration. We're all downstream from here!  For those at home, may I suggest VOSS . Narrow Road To The Interior... Frozen water once, Now melts into my heart. Joy comes dancing lightly

FlÄm- Enriched by a Wonderful Osmosis

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Free For All- H2O In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria. Unless of course you are in  Norway-- where meltwater  is useful,  humble, precious, and pure.The best wine may be the oldest, the best water, however, is  the newest. With cupped hands, drinking  melted glacier. It's pure inspiration. We're all downstream from here!  For those at home, may I suggest VOSS . Narrow Road To The Interior... Frozen water once, Now melts into my heart. Joy comes dancing lightly

The Fjords- Norway's Ecstasy

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A  good poem includes a waterfall. So Norway's fjords are potery in motion .This is Norway's Ecstasy. The definition of ecstasy is that you are not doing your ordinary everyday routine....esentially stepping into an alternative reality.This is the second time I have sailed in these fjords. It's like opening a door in the middle of nowhere and all you have to do is go and turn the handle and open it and let yourself sink into it, and just float. Narrow Road To The Interior... Summer Grasses, all that remains of Viking dreams.

The Fjords- Norway's Ecstasy

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A  good poem includes a waterfall. So Norway's fjords are potery in motion .This is Norway's Ecstasy. The definition of ecstasy is that you are not doing your ordinary everyday routine....esentially stepping into an alternative reality.This is the second time I have sailed in these fjords. It's like opening a door in the middle of nowhere and all you have to do is go and turn the handle and open it and let yourself sink into it, and just float.

Been To Russia-There Are No Bears

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Chaos Theory   Paul CĂ©zanne said we live in a rainbow of chaos. Here I am at The Hermitage in front of  his  paintings that were "transfered" after WW2. Chaos to me is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself. Seven Years in Tibet verse Seven Minutes in Debtor's Prison Better living through chaos Greetings from Somewhere Over The Rainbow--Saint Petersburg. It  is huge--there is a kind of quality in quantity. Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. St Pete is a large-scale city of haunting magnificence, an imperial capital that Peter the Great began building almost 3 centuries ago. Yet, there is a stillness to Petersburg, unlike say an asian city like Bangkok--or  Here Comes Everywhere--- a happy chaos, completely unaggressive, you hardly hear a rude noise or anyone shouting. Nobody cares. The great mingle-mangle flows smoothly and you  wonder how so many cars and people can be ...

Been To Russia-There Are No Bears

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Chaos Theory   Paul CĂ©zanne said we live in a rainbow of chaos. Here I am at The Hermitage in front of  his  paintings that were "transfered" after WW2. Chaos to me is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself... Seven Years in Tibet verse Seven Minutes in Debtor's Prison Greetings from Somewhere Over The Rainbow--Saint Petersburg. It  is huge--there is a kind of quality in quantity. Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. St Pete is a large-scale city of haunting magnificence, an imperial capital that Peter the Great began building almost 3 centuries ago. Yet, there is a stillness to Petersburg, unlike say an asian city like Bangkok--or  Here Comes Everywhere--- a happy chaos, completely unaggressive, you hardly hear a rude noise or anyone shouting. Nobody cares. The great mingle-mangle flows smoothly and you  wonder how so many cars and people can be jammed into...