Easter Weekend

Its a 4 day weekend here in Europe, however espousing our religous zeal we will be spending a large part of this weekend in church and the rest of the time being reminded by my wife I should be in prayer and asking for penance instead of horsing around. To those of you spending the weekend in Croatia and Istanbul (and Korea), don't think about me ... As I grow older (or cashflow richer) I am beginning to questions a lot of the blind beliefs that were part of my basic composition. I am grateful to my parents for instilling a very strong fear of god, my friends for etiquette on relationships and some superstitions that I have picked up along the way. A lot of those gold standards are no more so much yellow metal. The most worrying sometimes is the scientific mind battling the christian one, the sparring is not over however I am not sure it will end till I pick a side, i.e. have more faith in one. The main impact is it is changing me as a person, the basic principles that define me, the cherickel values. I seem to be taking a philosphical approach to defend breaking a lot of societies rules. I hate to admit here but I am struggling to define right and wrong but maybe its not so bad as I beleive the first is to acknowledge the problem. Like all things in my life, it will come to me. Patience is often the most least developed virtue in many of us, however the red herring in our emotional arsenal that will help us get through life unscathed. One things that I would really like to do and I think it will help answer some of these questions is to go to Jerusalem. Some day. Had a few friends over from work this week, memorable because it was the first time that I cooked everything with no supervision and I must say it was'nt so shabby. I think my Toscana flavour is quite mature and I will move on to other regions. I think my next target is Piedmont region. Have a good weekend.