Do Be Do Be Do – a year of solo travel

James Joyce statue in Dublin, Ireland.

“To be is to do”—Socrates.

“To do is to be”—Jean-Paul Sartre.

“Do be do be do”—Frank Sinatra.*

From Kurt Vonnegut’s 1982 novel, “Deadeye Dick”.

We refer to ourselves as human beings not human doings.

Yet, it is in the doing that we learn so much about being. It is also in the doing that we can exhaust ourselves. There is so much that can be done.

Oh, to find the balance between doing and being. Yes, I think Sinatra got it right with “Do be do be do“. (Yes, it w...