Persist.

Tourism is one of the most persistent human activities.
http://www.delo.si/mnenja/turizem-je-ena-najbolj-trdozivih-cloveskih-aktivnosti.html

Playing or working?

"... people usually experience as work what they have to do by some external force, whereas to experience something as play, they must feel that they have chosen to do it voluntarily."

Mark Twain (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

Photo: Dejan

Be free.

There are texts where you just can not change anything. Below is one of them from here.

“I go nowhere. Movies, theater, exhibitions–nothing. My only inspiration is my life. I am old. I have made every mistake possible. I have paid for everything. I am not very good to lead the daily life, to speak frankly. But I am very interested in high-quality literature and very, very interested in science, mathematics, biology, astrophysics, and things like that. I love the poetry of these things.

I live mainly on my oyster farm in the southwest of France, on a small island with 12 houses and without cars, electricity, or water. It’s a very rough life, a very basic life. The island is full of mud. I also have a house on a small island in Venice. If you are with the person you love, a good book, good music, and in front of you is the sea, the forest, the Venice bay, or 200 million oysters, that’s enough.

Every morning, take royal jelly and omega-3 oil, eat oysters, and have a good sexual life. Don’t care about anything, and never listen to anybody. Be free.”

Nothing could better describe myself, than this interview, one of the best I have read in a long time. Meet Philippe Starck, my personal hero, and maybe the most famous and prolific designer alive.

Read the interview with Starck for Fast Company.

Thanks, Andrej, for your description.

Working for your pension?

According to the author below, last year's HSBC survey results showed that among 20.000 adults around the world 60% of them intend to work after they have retired. As Dr. Patrick Dixon says:

"In future in many nations it will be a crime to discriminate on the basis of age, to force someone out of a job simply because they are 'too old', when they are fit and able to do the job as well as anyone else."

"Most people who retire say they are as busy after retirement than before. While this may not be accurate, the fact is that total leisure becomes boring to many people after a while."

How much money AND leisure activities should we then utilize when young-and-active and how much should we save for retired-and-active stage?
(foto: Dejan Križaj - active grandfather Janko /left/ and active sisters' father-in-law Jože)

Oman spices February/March '07

I needed a few weeks to find time for breathing Arabic again...

Oman February/March 2007 !

HERE you need a few minutes to load 10MB Flash movie (pictures with Quran recitation).

Alternatively (for fast viewing), the same pictures without background Quran are here.