We are like a boat at sea: storms will alternate with stillness, rain will fall and scorching sun follow, yet the sailing must go on if you are to reach your destination. And you have to look after the boat: maintain it, repair it, love it. The planet is the boat, the destination our future and everyday we get closer to it. There is not 'one way to the future' but several possibilities for change. We build them day by day: in our social relations, work, research and leisure activities.
Back to Oz, in the ebb-and-flow of life, all I really love is the peace and quite of a good reading while wishing I could spend time, as I used to, with my niece Carola... I love you dear and I wish you wisdom and health!
Back to the western part of Sicily. Here are Erice's Duomo from the XII-XVI century, 2 real old school fishermen...and my beloved doric temple of Segesta....very inspiring!
Siracusa is a wonder of the past: the Ear of Dionisus (the old quarry where the stone was extracted from), and Frederik II's Fortress, later to become a spanish army base among my favourite ones.