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I am who i am: an irish catholic kid, working class from long island. and i made it big.
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that i'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
I'd known the people at rolling stone for a while. i'd gone to them with a piece i'd done on beirut for vanity fair that vanity fair didn't want to publish, because they said i was making fun of death... this was tina brown.but they paid me for it. so i've got this big chunk of a piece, and rolling stone liked it, but they thought it was a little dated. but then they called me back and asked me to do a similar piece about the turks and caicos islands, where the whole government had been arrested for dope smuggling. that was fun.
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
So far, i've only sailed in the caribbean. i've sailed the virgin island and the grenadines. i liked all that. we charted some really crummy boats in the grenadines. that made for an exciting sailing trip (laughs) when everything goes well. when everything goes well. when sails rip, engines freeze up and you find there are organisms growing inside the diesel, it's terrible and amazing stuff.
I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "surviving" is for wimps and game show contestants stranded in the jungle or on a desert island. you are not stranded. you own the store....you deserve better.
In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, i can kind of cross off the island beach thing. maybe at sunset or something.
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! to behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. the highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.
Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.
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