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So far, I covered how I presently see the COVID-19 pandemic and how I see it unfolding over the next year or two. Now I’m going to share what I’m doing about it as an individual.
I’m taking reasonable precautions. I’m doing what’s recommended to protect myself from COVID-19; washing my hands, avoiding close contact, wearing a mask when around others, cleaning and disinfecting surfaces. Ever since the county I live in issued its health order in mid-March
…I’m writing for this blog again.
I hope I’ll be able to get into a habit of writing and posting regularly. I failed at my last attempt doing this and haven’t posted anything for over a year, although I did keep up pretty well with my sailing blog until I completed The Voyage last August.
Before resuming writing for this blog, I asked myself, “Why do it? Why try again? What is the purpose?” Is it to just
…On January 8th I set sail from La Paz, on the Baja California peninsula of Pacific Mexico for Long Island, NY on a multi-leg voyage. I provide a synopsis of “The Voyage” in my sailing blog, Sailing Intermezzo and provide regular progress updates while sailing there. That blog describes the what, where, when and how of The Voyage. I barely touch on the why.
I’m making this voyage to learn more about just being. Yes, The Voyage has
…I haven’t written anything for this blog for over five months. My thoughts did not stay still long enough nor were they solid enough for me to be able to express them. I had nothing to say.
Now I do, though not much, nothing particularly significant to say.
I just feel more purpose in my life, a better sense of self. Those simple conditions give rise to wanting to express myself, to put my words out there again.
The sense
…Yes, it’s been two months since my last post to my blog. Why? What happened?
Life. To paraphrase Viktor Frankl, from his book “Man’s Search for Meaning”, life expected something of me and it was my “responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
I spent the rest of February after my birthday on the 22nd in La Paz making friends and living a pretty lazy, solitary
…Today is my 57th birthday. I’m celebrating in quiet solitude on my boat in Mexico. Actually, more reflecting than celebrating, and I find cause to both lament and celebrate in my reflections so it’s like a big birthday stew of thoughts and feelings.
I feel like my life has been riding what was once a nice wave but which is now breaking and tumbling towards the beach, where it will ultimately dissipate its energy and recede back into the ocean.
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An important part of my life is sailing. In June of 2017 I completed a voyage that
It feels good to finally launch this blog. It is something I’ve wanted to do for months now, but had to fit in with my other ventures and it took some time to set up the way I wanted it.
It feels good to have a place to write about whatever I want to. Writing for me is a natural and comfortable way to express myself – my thoughts, my feelings, my beliefs. I love the process of writing, the
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