doing something different with language
A Tale of Steph, the Once-Upon-A-Summer Sailor
One of my post-sailing-adventure musings is, what if I had read Longitude shipboard instead of The Telling? 🙂
There’s no way to know, of course, what would have changed or whether those changes might have mattered, in the end. Captain explained how sailors use the variety of sounds from gongs … Read more...
Over the past week, I had a couple of long text-message conversations with a friend across the country, trying to sort out how to navigate the intensity of dynamics that had developed so unexpectedly. I mean, I came to sail, not to do intense interpersonal processing! Which doesn’t mean I assumed that there would not be any, but I never … Read more...
Once Captain was settled – after negotiating the steeply-angled dock ramp – Sarah took me to Updike’s for some internet time. She introduced me to Mike, who promptly dubbed his place, “Newtowne’s Coffee and Daycare.” I was in good hands. 🙂 When she … Read more...
Sarah poked fun at herself while showing me around the Gracious Lady. Her boat had been in the shop for two years and still needs major refinishing – enough to evidence a true labor of love (for instance, thirteen personally-applied coats of varnish on the … Read more...
You can’t get much closer to the basic elements of life than sailing. Water is essential; wind is the sun’s heat once removed. In a big boat, one can ignore the pull of current and drift of air – why depend on puffs when the diesel switch makes such subtle … Read more...
It was a pleasure to read Sutty’s phenomenological sentiment as an answer to my dad’s question (“How is the briny sea?”) in between escape attempts from Point Judith Pond, on this tenth … Read more...
Captain is not exactly fond of river sailing – compared with the open sea, rivers leave a fair bit to be desired. Truth is, sailing on the Connecticut River is what I know best, so far. (Last year’s one serious foray into the Long Island Sound was not exactly a party.) Captain is … Read more...
My list is finally showing the end in sight — just the big packing tomorrow, which can’t be done sooner because of the heat. For your entertainment, below is a list of what’s gone into this… The first things aren’t yet done — all the completed ones get a little “done” after them.
