Bill Bennett is a very common name. Right now, I'm reading a book by the Australian film maker Bill Bennett. He hiked the Camino in 2013 and then wrote a book (and made an Australian movie, not available in the U.S.) about it. Seems he kept a blog about that hike, too. I went to look for his Camino blog, and found he started one years after the hike, but he didn't post regularly... His last post from 2022 announced his had Parkinson's and had kept the diagnosis secret for 4 years. Now that almost three years have passed from that post, I wonder what's happened to him. Blogs are weird. They just sit there. Anyone can stumble upon them, and read them. So I decided to keep looking for his Camino blog. https://billbennett.blog/home/ *** And I found another Bill Bennett, this one from New Zealand, who keeps a microblog. It's current and updated. "What's a microblog?" My wife asked. Well, I said, it's a small blog. Just a sentence or two for a post. ...
Actually, I like that line, but tend to disagree with it. Many years ago I heard the line that went something like "life is what happens while you are making other plans". I have found that to be pretty much true in my life. Sometimes what has happened has been much better than I could have planned, and sometimes otherwise. But I think also that it is generally true that "happiness is what happens when you are not seeking too hard for happiness alone". By that I mean that if you seek happiness and only that, you are likely to be disappointed. But if you seek to accomplish important things, to be of use to others, to understand and help other people, then you are likely to find that happiness comes without effort, and without particular planning.
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