When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
Dynasties of the Sea: The Shipowners and Financiers Who Expanded the Era of Free Trade
The first book to examine one of the most powerful forces in global trade and economic development: world shipping and the magnates who drive the industry.
This is something most Americans don’t think about. But something I think about every day as I watch the shipping lanes of Singapore, one of the busiest ports in the world.
My last beer of my Australia vacation is called “Angry Man”. It has a picture of a man fighting a kangaroo on it. (at Old Manly Boatshed)
On the way to the Sydney Zoo (at Sydney Ferry)
Brekkie. With a dollop of ice cream. (at Manly Beach)
Sunburned bus in a sunburned country. (at Dee Why Beach)
Sydney (at Mrs Macquarie’s Point)
Day 1 Manly Beach. Just outside Sydney. (at Manly Beach)
New Zealand day 9 of RV trip. (at Lake Pukaki)
Road to Queenstown, New Zealand (at Devil’s Stairs)
