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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
…This little piece of fiction is inspired by the bees of the Sea of Cortez, who are always on the hunt for fresh water in dry season and when they find it on your boat, come in big swarms and stay for hours. They have never behaved aggressively and I’ve never been stung. The bees are more interested in staying together than in a particular place, so you can herd them out from where you don’t want them, once you figure
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My sailing season has drawn to its end, my boat Intermezzo set to be hauled out and put in dry storage for the
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.
…I recently flew from San Francisco to my boat in La Paz, Mexico. The best value flight connected through Guadalajara. Rather than hang out in the airport for six hours waiting for my connecting flight to La Paz, I decided to stay overnight in Guadalajara and check out Mexico’s fourth largest and most progressive city. I’m glad I did.
I only had a day to explore, so I focused on the historic Centro and trendy Chapultepec neighborhoods. The weather was
…In October 2015 I left my job as an executive with an engineering firm where I had worked for 25 years, got on my boat, sailed out through San Francisco’s Golden Gate and turned left to begin a two year sailing voyage. All at once, I left a life that was highly structured and in which I had a known and powerful identity, to begin one that had virtually no structure and where I was a nobody.
By working hard
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An important part of my life is sailing. In June of 2017 I completed a voyage that
I just finished reading The Jungle Books (there are two of them) by Rudyard Kipling for the first time. The stories in these books are very different than
My reaction to Trump being elected president was pretty extreme. I was so shocked and horrified, I felt compelled to do something about it, something big. So, I decided to run for president myself, a Quixotic venture that I put on hold after a few months of exploration. I have since been spending my time observing and studying the nation’s politics. My shock and horror has turned into grave concern. I remain compelled to do something,
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