<p>A retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer living the life I always imagined: </p>

<p>• Lounging in cafés
• Meandering through the Louvre
• Hearing Blake in the stained glass of Gothic cathedrals
• Inhaling Proust
• Exhaling philosophy
• Solving for 'X'
• Communing with Abelard and Heloise in Père Lachaise
• Feeling Bach's long shadow fall across baroque chamber concerts
• Learning to play the flute
• Practicing tai chi in the Luxembourg Gardens
• Floating across the faded footsteps of angelheaded hipsters
• Enjoying late-afternoon absinthe
• Discovering gypsy jazz clubs
• Channeling Rilke
• Wandering on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing...</p>

rwjones