Wanderer

“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea… cruising it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.

a Bear & a Bee

Once upon a time there was a Bear and a Bee
Who lived in a wood and were the best of friends.
All summer long the Bee collected nectar from morning to night
While the Bear lay on his back basking in the long grass.
When the winter came the Bear realized he had nothing to eat
And thought to himself:
“I hope that busy little Bee
Will share some of his honey with me”.
But the Bee was nowhere to be found
He had died of a stress induced coronary disease.

~Jean de La Fontaine

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Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a great and glorious nation. Favourite amongst his subjects was the court painter of whom he was very proud. Everybody agreed this wizzened old man painted the greatest pictures in the whole kingdom and the king would spend hours each day gazing at them in wonder.

However, one day a dirty and dishevelled stranger presented himself at the court claiming that in fact he was the greatest painter in the land. The indignant King decreed a competition would be held between the two artists, confident it would teach the vagabond an embarrassing lesson. Within a month they were both to produce a masterpiece that would out do the other.