A Salute to Team Adventure
[21:09] [Sunday, April 22, 2007]
When we began this trip we were sailing solo and we liked being alone but over time we have made many new friends and shared many sails, anchorages, laughs, fish, drinks and complications with each other. This is a toast to the team: To our crew, Blu and Igor; To Peter and Theresa of Sonatina; To Gary and Leslie of Lysistrata; To Jim and Nicky of SeaYeti; To Kathy and Ric of Sea Dragon and their crew, Jeff, Nikki, Kellie and Cory; and To Ana and Nate of Altair:
From the best of the best to the worst of the worst
Some with their Gods and some with their cursed
We raise our sails high and we quench our thirst
To the cup of life and living and all that comes first.
Salute!
Man's Law vs. Nature's Law
[20:48] []
I have never been what you would call content. Always this feeling that things aren't quite right. That there's something missing. Something essential to who we were and who we still hopefully are. It's so vast and essential some of us spend our whole lives looking for it, but once it was so simple we didn't even need to think about it. It just was. I think most people have felt this way. Some briefly, who then find distractions; others increasingly, who grow more and more uncertain of "their place."
We are so self-absorbed and arrogant that we live our lives with blinders on. We now see only what is directly in front of us and no longer what is all around us. I am like this and so are you. Can we reinvent ourselves? Unlearn what we have been taught for so long? Can we even remember what's missing?
I want to. Yet I am everywhere I go. And you are everywhere too. It seems like there is no escape. Like we are all being pulled down the same raging river, and no one can pull themselves ashore; most prefer to just go with the flow. We are everywhere and the majority rules. Or at least that's what we think. Eventually one law will prevail.
Many who read this will be thinking, "Come on, Brady (John), cut the ideological crap!" or maybe just, "What the hell are you talking about?" I am just making observations.
I am one of us. For an outsider's view, I highly recommend reading "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn. Please.
