Resurrection, 7 Ragged Tigers and a New Moon on Monday
4 summers into this crazy escapade it is time to revisit just how we got here. It is a tale that encompasses many twists and turns but ultimately hinges on the importance to young men of mentors and the guidance to become a person that pays attention to the present and ultimately learns the ability to capture the little details to store it all for later, to then apply discipline and long game thinking and carve out a lifestyle that generates joy and freedom. This is the Art of War applied to life, but in a nice way....
The fleeting nature of danger and a series of unfortunate events.
Having an immediate fear response to a dangerous situation is not only healthy, but a very wise way to act. To not get scared in the face of true and apparent danger is just flat out reckless.
To constantly live in fear however, and be paralysed into inaction as a polar opposite, is also flat out reckless.
This lifestyle of extremes seems to be a real growing trend out in the "real world" with an alarming number of people operating with seemingly no concept of consequence. Similarily the constant state of anxiety that some people are living in is exhausting to watch from the edges, so I can only imagine how exhausting it must be to live it. But what is it like on a boat, constantly surrounded by unfathomable risk?
What a load of Rubbish
Today's Salty Thoughts from Capt David revolve around the topic of rubbish, and waste in general, as it seems more and more to be symptomatic of our entire societal interaction with nature. It is an existential crisis for some, and definitely a large component to the footprint of our place in the world, as well as our lasting legacy on the ground upon which we currently tread.
This morning whilst on the dawn dog beach mission, I came across a very old plastic bag of rubbish buried in a deeper layer of the bank just off the normal high tide line. It was not really that visible, except to those paying attention to every little thing around them. The recent years of heavier storm surges, or even the Tonga tsunami of 2022 that rolled through the Kenepuru Sound, may have chipped away at the bank and revealed the short term and lazy thinking of some individual from years gone by.
Why is choice so important to us?
Choice means different things to different people, but to us it has become a goal worthy of chasing.
The concept of choice is surprisingly complex once you get into it. Is it a sense of freedom or is it a wider state of choice that enables opportunities to be enacted upon when they present themselves? The choice to make your own decisions, to live how you decide, and go where the wind takes you is a romantic notion to many, but entirely achievable to some. How does this apply to a family of 6, living a complicated life balancing running a business, homeschooling 4 children, and finding a sense of adventure?