Fighting Windmills

I love this print of Picasso. I identify with the subject: Don Quixote. I don't go around fighting windmills or anything. For one thing, there aren't many windmills around these days...unless I decide to move to Holland or some such place. Not a bad proposition by any stretch, but probably not too likely.

In any case, I identify with Quixote's idealism, unfaltering dedication, and true (to him at least) sense of self. The word quixotic, which means "caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality" comes from this story and this character.

"En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor."

"In a place in La Mancha, whose name I do not want to recall, there dwelt not so long ago a gentleman of the type wont to keep an unused lance, an old shield, a greyhound for racing, and a skinny old horse."