What Is This Thing In Life That Persuades Me To Spend
Time Away From You?
If You Can Answer This You Can Have The Moon.
This Is The Place To Be, Anyway You Can See
There’s A Lovely View.
Why Are There Always So Many Other Things To Do?
-macca
So, a friend noted that I’ve not been posting daily recently. Sorry about that.  As you know I’m heading off to Israel at the end of the month to participate in the sea kayaking symposium there. THAT means I have to get my desk cleared off at home first.  There is nothing worse than leaving for a couple weeks knowing that you’ve got a whole pile of wood to split when you get back.
Instead of blathering today, I think I’ll just post this picture of a moody Michigan beach. I’d rather be walking right there today listening to the surf as I ponder the universe, then facing another day working on the computer. How ‘bout you?
The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned
So how can you lose what you’ve never owned?
Life is just a bowl of cherries,
So live and laugh at it all.
I know we’re all about paddling but it’s pretty much impossible to avoid all the bad news recently. It reminded me of something John Steinbeck once said, “If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help - the only ones.”
I don’t believe in wake up calls. The problem is that in order to “wake up” to something you have to be paying attention in the first place. Usually the folks who need the wakeup call are not the folks paying attention. . or they wouldn’t need the wakeup call in the first place. Quite a carousel ride if I do say so myself!
So the question you ask when someone’s feeling a bit timid is. .”Where’d you hang YOUR balls today!?” Well, the answer is, ” Out on the clothesline by the fence.” of course!
For the sake of those who’ve not heard this story, I picked up using tennis balls to help teach edging from the folks at Body, Boat, Blade a few years back. You basically have the student drop a tennis ball in their cockpit, right between their knees, then have them move the ball under one knee or the other by lifting and relaxing their legs. The concept gives them a mental image and a bit of physical feedback as well. Of course there are those occasions where the hull is not quite made for this sort of thing. .
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You may have already watched the new This Is The Sea 4 promo clips over at CackleTV.com but here’s a little treat. Justine Curgenven has kindly allowed me to share with you guys a higher resolution, widescreen version here at Quix. I think the bit of extra wait for the download is worth it.
I’ve been searching for just a little more
But the days girl, just slip away
- wolfmother
A writer can be inspired by many things; The last bit of a red sunset slipping away to hide from the darkness, life’s inspiring victories and overwhelming defeats, tragedies large and small, and of course a paycheck. How the story comes out is not just filtered by the mind of the writer, but also the atmosphere in which it was written. Most writers build their own “writer’s nest”. A place and atmosphere that is conducive to thought transcribed.
