12 October

2010

Why Is It Necessary to Do What We Love?

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Why Is It Necessary to Do What We Love?

I couldn’t find a better answer to the question of “Why is it necessary to do what you love?” than what was given by this notorious slogan for Kofola ( = Czech equivalent of Coca-Cola) – “Když ji miluješ, není co řešit.” meaning “When you love it, nothing else matters.” Even before their advertisers came [...]

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16 July

2010

Two larches

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Two larches

It was back in the early eighties when I planted these two larches at my parent’s garden…two little, identical trees. In case you’ve never heard of this kind of a tree, they are native to the cooler, temperate northern hemisphere where I happen to live. Here, a grown larch reaches from fifteen up to fifty [...]

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30 May

2010

Stop punishing the world

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Stop punishing the world

At a party I went to recently, a friend and I discussed some of the Woody Allen’s movies. The talk came to one of his recent works named “Viki Christina Barcelona”. You may have seen it. Perhaps you remember the scene where the main character – Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem) brings his friend Vicki (Rebecca Hall) to his father’s [...]

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