Sometimes sailing? Yes, back to my home/sailboat pairing. Home as sailboat. Homing as sailing. A recurring exploration. Inspired by recent adventures with my extraordinary wife, best friend, and co-adventurer.
Sometimes Sailing
Springtime and autumn
sunrise and sunset
homing and dwelling
(and sometimes sailing)
pair impossible
with the possible
surging, subsiding
beginning, ending
coming, departing
healing, harboring
and adventuring.
Sailing home, coursing forward. And away. At once.
Like guiding a sloop through surging surf.
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A home. A sailboat. Much overlap.
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Coursing along, one with the turbulence, the urgency, the force pushing away and pulling toward,…(Source: The Art of Flux)
At one with the surging seas, surfing away from the familiar, toward a new adventure.
I then think about what will happen afterwards. It is important to have a long-term plan. There is always a bit of a downer after crossing the finish line, a kind of mourning. To end an adventure and think, ‘What the hell do I do now?’ is a mistake. Better to have the void already filled and be getting on with the next project.
— Pete Goss , Close to the Wind (1998), p103 (via “An Emotional Relationship”)
What adventure ends. Another adventure begins. With each new chapter, more passion and respect, better teamwork, surer confidence.
Sometimes sailing is the only way to say, we’re almost ready for the next adventure!
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