Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth might not be on the ground, so I’ll see you in the sky!
passion
Do what you love
How much longer am I going to do this? I don’t know. I love it, you see. Anthony Bourdain, Chef. Writing about 27 years of cooking professionally, in his book ‘Kitchen Confidential’. He wrote that in 2000. Fifteen years later he is still going strong. If you want to be good, you have to love the doing.
It is never finished
“It is never finished. I don’t have a sense of triumph or resting on laurels. I am quite a restless person. I just want to fly. I wish I was leaving tomorrow and flying on.” Tracey Curtis-Taylor. After flying an open-cockpit biplane England to Australia. Sounds like she knows of the perpetual pursuit … Her website is www.birdinabiplane.com, some great press reports of her 21,000 km journey in The Telegraph and The Guardian.
What would you like to do if money were no object
Alan Watts would have turned 101 yrs-old today. This is an excellent comic page from Zen Pencils illustrating one of his quotes, the full “What would you like to do if money were no object.” For me the answer is easy. Fly airplanes.
Harrison Ford talks (some) flying
“When the engine quit, my training had prepared me to deal with it in a way. I really didn’t get scared. I just got busy. I knew what I was going to do, and I knew how to do it. The mantra aviators carry around in our heads is: Fly the airplane, first thing. Fly the airplane — even if it doesn’t have an engine, fly. Don’t give up that ship, matey. And even though I don’t remember the details of it, I guess I was able to do that, because the way I landed, the wings were level. I … Continue reading Harrison Ford talks (some) flying