Last Entry for 2008I think that little lad – not so happy - called Oliver aged 10 some 37 years ago would be quite pleased with his investment / faith in the future if he had he been able to see Oliver 2008.
It’s been a good - no great - year and I have many, many people to thank for that. If I have known you personally in 2008 I would like to say a big ‘thank you’. I really mean it.
As is life, some of the 'calls' I have made this year I could never be certain about, articulated far better than I by Robert Frost’s perfect poem ‘The Road Not Taken’. (Please visit this link for a concise and explained version of this work)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent to the undergrowth…..
Perhaps 2009 will see me explore some of these 'lesser' paths - who knows.
I am ending 2008 and starting 2009 as I started and ended the year before and many before that….with my great passion skiing. For those who will not be joining, here is Neil Young; one of my life time heroes, with a fitting song I always relate to my journeys to my other home in beautiful snow covered Chamonix.
To everyone I know thanks for sharing the year with me - let's continue it.
Oliver (and of course the 'wee man')
