You chased the sun around the Cote d’Azur, Until the light of youth became obscured, and left you on your own and in the shade August 16, 2011
Making a blanket generalization it seems as if everytime I try to capture the spirit of Europe in a song it meanders back to A Lady of a Certain Age. Seems as if Europe is way ahead when it comes to a balanced and integrated approach to life, a feeling and a history that’s too hard to put down in words.
The macro worldview has lost virtue, Europe appears to be at the forefront of setting the reclamination of virtue as its goal, dragging the politicians, oligarchs, and technology along with it. It has a great set of invisible hands guiding the path.
The ability to keep rediscovering that goal personally is a constant challange.
In the past I was excited to be a technologist, the days when I mistook productivity for efficiency. Paddling hard with the daily grind, I forget what’s important and unique….I lose the hunger to transcend, and you forget that there is no true winner in a finite game.
The goals then and the goals now are extremely different, as we all struggle to determine just what is the goal of the 21st century man.

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