Scamworld

There is also something very American, if lazier and not quite as smart, in the notion that everyone who wants Success, deserves Success — with a capital “s.” This sort of Bastard American Dream is the underlying message of Internet Marketing and “self-help,” IM’s older cousin.

The cracked pot

An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.
One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.
At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

Pico Iyer and Leonard Cohen

Another day, as the retreat is drawing to a close, the sky above my window gray and shriven and severe, he shows up with his hands dirty from fixing his toilet, and I try to get him to talk about his writing.

Lost in translation in Tokyo

My first Vagabonding field report is online on Vagabonding website. Enjoy it!!

A new vagabonding field reporter

Eating a Piranha in the Colombian Amazon

I am really excited to announce that I have started a collaboration with Vagabonding, the website created by Rolf Potts, who authored the besteseller book with the same title.

3×3 WC – 9 What I appreciate in people

Rule: 3 paragraphs of 333 words each

1 – What I appreciate in people

First of all, do I really appreciate people? Not as I should, I believe. People are the best resource in our life. We don’t value them enough.

3x3WC – 8 The art of dying

To understand The art of dying, you must master the Art of living

Every day, in an average adult between 50 and 70 billion cells die. That makes 300.000.000 per minute. Still, most of the people can’t cope with the only certain fact we all share: death.

3x3WC – 7 What is happiness for me

“Happiness is real only when shared”, said once Alex Supertramp
For what is worth, this humble blogger Cloudio think the same way.
Alex went Into the Wild, and was lost alone in his Alaska camp

3x3WC – 6 Hot & Cold

This is the story of an epic fail.

I am currently hostage of my couchsurfing host in an irish pub

Only thing i can do is acknowledge my fail. I will not write this article.

Sorry Daniele , sumimasen reader.

I Only can tell that the Japanese word for cold is Samui. Like the island of Ko Samui in Thailand that instead is very hot.

The Japanese word for hot is hotto. Like hotto cofi. There are many coffee shops in Japan but coffee sucks and it’s overpriced.

Starbucks in Shibuya, the famous square in Tokyo where everybody cross the street in all direction may be the best place in the world for people watching though.

So i wrote this on an iPod in an irish pub where everybody is drunk and loud but me. I am just very pissed.

If Only i have a word counter.
Please look at my pictures in my travels blog

Rule for next article: write in 3 terzine dantesche schema ABA BCB CDC

3x3WC – 5 I will never do it again

What I will never do it again?