France, Easy Game and The Wisdom of Insecurity
La Clusaz, Manigod, Le Balme... Mont Blanc on the horizon... winter to spring in a 10 minutes bus ride...
Les Villards-sur-Thones to Annecy by bicycle...
...the French-trademarked-chic in balconies (it should be called vert-de-Provence not vert-de-Paris), the oh-so-beautiful women, trees, and plants, and gardens, architecture...
...Annecy's Vieille Ville - the quirky Basilique de la Visitation (and what a convenient name that is), the conservatively proportionate Eglise Notre Dame de Liesse
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| Basilique de la Visitation - Annecy |
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| detail from Eglise de Notre Dame de Liesse - Annecy |
...two horsemen viewed from Thonnes Via Ferrata in the afternoon's sunlight... Melancholia...
...two black-goats ("chamois") viewed from the same Via Ferrata...
When does something become extreme? (when does something "become" anything for that matter) ...and I'm talking about the transition from ski to off-piste ski to xtreme ski... In order to be extreme we need a comparison... Right... so... extreme ski. Compared to... couch surfing? Or compared to wingsuit flight?
Stairs to Via Ferrata to Climbing to Solo Climbing? (What does Alan Watts have to say about naming? "names have been considered uncanny manifestations of supernatural power") (affectionate bow to Patrick Rothfuss)
"Easy Game - Making Sense of No Limit Hold ‘em" vs "The Wisdom of Insecurity" for some reason I find reading these books in parallel ... suited :) might be the "no limit"?... or maybe the fact that one starts with "At the very beginning of our poker experience, we have no idea what is happening around us"... remove "poker" and what we get is a definition of insecurity... (wisdom hopefully follows) (comparisons could continue "getting good at poker is about learning and not winning" and "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance"...)
Ah - and did I mention I'm in love?
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| Alan W. Watts |
"The art of living in this "predicament" is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past and the known on the other. It consists in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."
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