The blog will be quiet – or quieter – the next twelve days or so.  I'm taking a trip to Ireland: Dublin and Galway.  Not sure what web connectivity will be, since I'm not bringing a laptop. 

Let me leave you with Tao Te Ching, passage 47:

You can know all beneath heaven thought you never step out your door, and you can see the Way of heaven though you never look out the window.

The further you explore, the less you know.

So it is a sage knows by going nowhere, names by seeing nothing, perfects by doing nothing.

Given that I do a fair amount of traveling, I obviously do not live by these words.  But they're worth keeping in mind nonetheless.