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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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Petronella and her contribution for a better world
Petronella and her contribution for a better world
Today, September 10, 2022, we closed Petronella until Spring.
She is winterized, the deck clear of all sailing necessities and her belly packed. Hibernate and rest my darling, we will wake you up when the time comes. Thank you.
Last week was an extremely busy one, and I am happy that we had Stas, our sailing companion during the last 3
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An Unlikely Voyage: 2000 miles alone in a small wooden boat
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An Unlikely Voyage: 2000 miles alone in a small wooden boat
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“Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them… The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place. — Arthur Ransome”
― An Unlikely Voyage: 2000 miles alone in a small wooden boat
― An Unlikely Voyage: 2000 miles alone in a small wooden boat
“In nearly every year for at least 250 years, deaths outnumbered births in London. Only the steady influx of ambitious provincials and Protestant refugees from the Continent kept the population growing—and grow it did, from fifty thousand in 1500 to four times that number by century’s end.”
― Shakespeare: The World as Stage
― Shakespeare: The World as Stage
“nothing is more difficult in war than to adhere to a single strategic plan” and to resist the “constant temptation to desert the chosen line of action in favor of another one.”
― An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
― An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
“Eisenhower wrote his own son at West Point: “I have observed very frequently that it is not the man who is so brilliant [who] delivers in time of stress and strain, but rather the man who can keep on going indefinitely, doing a good straightforward job.”
― An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
― An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
“I want to fight the champ,” he said. “If you lose, you’ve lost to the champ and it’s no disgrace. If you win, you’re the new champ.”
― An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
― An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
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