Dedicated to Darcy

Even though this sentence doesn't belong to the sea, it is sentimentally dedicated to Darcy StJohn, for this sentence is coming from a great quiet, a quiet only a wise sailorman would read as bringer of great changes and important battles:

"The Board is Set. The Pieces are Moving"

Gandalf

Something about business and work...

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

Harry S. Truman

"A Rising Tide Floats All Boats"

I can't find who said this last one, so, if any one of you knows it, please, post a comment down here.

Vince Lombardi

This wants to be an homage to Vince Lombardi, one of the most charismatic football coach ever (american football). I'll let his quotes speak for him:

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

"The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince."
"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

"They may not love you at the time, but they will later."

"Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it."

"To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price."

I set a new course....

If this was meant to be written in English then in English will be! Here comes the metamorphosis, this blog will pass from being my "Diario di Bordo" to be the "Captain's Log", and for those of you wanderers who already sailed away to the sea, this title will have a whole different taste. There's nothing more to say here than: "Sail to the sea!!!"


Capt. Jack Aubrey: To wives and sweethearts!!
Officers: To wives and sweethearts!!
Capt. Jack Aubrey: May they never meet!

...new deal...

...and so after the problems come the solutions.
Bibione and that temporary unsustainable job are gone, a tie had to be severed, perhaps a deep cut was made, but some things are to be done, and that was exactly the thing to do at the right moment.
Coincidence? I don't know, maybe there is a trace of a higher order, a sort of path we sometimes see and sometimes guess we're following it. The fact is I'm back in Florence and it has a helluva different taste!
I'm positive on this! ...and it's not only cos now I'm listening to "a quai" from the sountrack of Amélie!


"To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being."
Tom Robbins


"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate"

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Isaac Asimov