Miguel de Cervantes on life.
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
On the way to the Khardung La pass, Ladakh, September 2021.
On love.
I prefer the chaos of love — even fake love — to such absurd and complete disregard and contempt for love in today’s world.
I prefer to truly live this life. And only through love. Through its wonderful presence and painful absence, appearances and disappearances, and its unknowable abysses and dead-ends.
Snow envy.
Ever since living in the Himalaya, I’ve come to envy the mountains because it always snows first over them and not over me, and it snows over them irritatingly more often than over me.
Snow over delicious-looking mountains in Ladakh, India. September 2021.