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Very cool way to start a long weekend- hope everyone stays safe in their own island paradise
God Bless America
Where one day a year... we are free to bitch about how broke we are, thanks to the #$%*)(!@$# tax system......and how we worked all year to get to this state...
and yet... we are still richer than easily 90% of the world
I need a drink.... is anyone buying?
FYI- Not a self portrait, merely a representation...
50 hits in just a couple of days. To many that might seem to be a milestone. Some wax poetic about what they have done. For me that seems to be a look in the rear view mirror. I know what I have done, know the coasts my ship has visited, but it is still headed forward. I have more oceans to sail. More sunsets to experience. Rum on distant coasts, and women in different ports. For me I would rather not be obsessed with how many candles are on my cake, but the number of people that my life has crossed. The personalities, not only that I have touched... but that have touched me.
I want to experience what this life has in store for me. What is still left, the laughter, the sorrow, the pains and joys. I don't know that this happens as I eat cake. I think it happens in the little boring steps we take each day. Getting up, hitting the alarm clock and getting dressed doing our day over again.
Sure we get chances in our lives for monumental things, but those aren't the bulk of our life as I look back on it. It is the day to day rub with others that seals our fate, sets our courses and changes our lives to make them richer.
So watch out world... this pirate- is turned loose and starting his next half century.....may your pirate flag stand to the wind and the salt sea always be in your face....
The Pirate.
Should I stay or should I go.......
Who knew The Clash would raise such a profound comment in their song from the early 80's. We are presented with choices, options and avenues that when forced to choose will forever change our lives. And with each move we ponder as we try to see ahead, but only have guesses, is this the right choice or are we heading full speed down a dead end road. Many times, our clarity is only after we pick up the pieces of the accident we created and learn that this wasn't the way we were supposed to go.
After having this happen to me many times in my life. I have begun to wonder if life is not about making the decision to the left or the right. But seeing what you will do when you go down either road. Running into the dead end. Will you let life beat you down. Or will you dust yourself off and pick yourself up and say... okay. Let's try this again.
There may not be a bad decision. It may not be about going left or right, but learning to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try again... that may be what this silly life is truly about.
Distance many times gives us clarity to make the right decision. The problem is that normally the fire is chasing us and gaining ground with every step we take. Here's to fireproof shoes and for once the wind in our face.
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Sometimes that silence says more than a thousand words.
Its always interesting to me to listen to a a person who stands on the shore wish that they could sail away... never having seen the majesty yes but the sheer emptiness of the sea. The way it makes you feel small and humbles your soul that very few places on land really will.
The land locked never feel the haunting of having to go over the next horizon just to say they did.... and a restless spirit in their soul if they aren't having the waves slide under them at the fastest pace the wind carries them.....
It is the haunting in our souls.... never being able to settle in one place to long... many a love has run across a sailor who longs for the smell of the sea... never to understand or be able to voice its appeal....
for all of those left on the land as our sails furl and we head to the next horizon.... I can not explain our wanderlust.... it is merely a part of the soul that makes us the characters we are......
Life and its' moments
Okay, so I was being yelled at earlier today and had one of those out of body experiences. Not where they are boring you so bad that you can't listen and simply zone off... though this person, if anyone is definitely a candidate for that, and soon!
No this was where I had a epiphany of life and somehow- that trumped what was going on in the one sided conversation. Have you ever had something that you foolishly held onto even though life is laughing at you. I did. Had a girlfriend I was in puppy love with. Everyone told me in town she wasn't good for me but I wouldn't listen. So it wasn't until she dumped me publicly with her real boyfriend and they both laughed at me. I was crushed as I had run around with a false belief.
Same goes for all of us. We hold onto ideals and thoughts thinking that this is what life is... only to be disappointed and then mad at life and others when our belief is shown to be false. Fast forward to today. This person yelling and screaming at me is mad, because their view of life is tainted by their views of a lot of things. Trying to tell them that their views are skewed does no good. They are angry at the world because things turned out like everyone told them it would. But, not their viewpoint. So now life is evil, I'm the proverbial SOB and so on.
And about then is when I stepped back. Now I am sorry this person is struggling with life and flailing their arms at ghosts in the wind. But it got me to thinking. How many times do we waste our time, energy, money, life, relationships, jobs.. and it can go on and on... chasing and believing in ideas that aren't reality....
I know I have some and today marks the first step in shedding the false realities... so that I can live a happier life.... what about you?
Anchors Up......
Sometimes life wakes you up. Sometimes it slaps you in the face. Either way you take stock not only in where you are at, but also who surrounds you. Time to pull up anchor and find new ports- see new horizons, and meet new characters.....
The anchors, up.... the sails are furled- and those at this spit of land.. I wish fond adieu... there is treasure over the horizon.... and when I come to my new spot.. you won't recognize me..so do not seek your pirate.... I will be something different as many only saw what they wanted to see.. and that even temporarily is not who this pirate is...
The wind calls... and the horizon beckons....
My desire to be for you...
The Biggest Lie
You know I think the biggest lie we are fed in life... is that if we follow the way our elder generations tell us to do life... we will have a set life. Marriage, career, kids, retirement. It is set that if you do A then Be will happen. At least that was the general lie that I swallowed for years.
I don't believe anybody lied to me in leading me down this collective path. Hell, I see many people that have bought into this and have the same view. Somewhere down the line; maybe it is the third marriage, maybe it is the time they are let go and corporate "downsized" in their early fifties just before retirement. Maybe it is when their retirement goes up in a flash in a turn of the economy half a world away.
Somewhere we all have to adjust to the fact that life isn't what we are told it is. Life, family, love, careers all of that- is different. And the faster we learn that and adapt the better our life can go forward.
Time to change our outlook- we make our futures.
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To touch another-
Something is missing. Not just from my life- but our society. We are loosing a valuable asset in our humankind. It is touch and connectivity.
Think about it. Every where you go we are loosing that touch of another human. We have auto bill pay. We have dating sites that you almost don't have to talk to the person in person but can swipe left or right to show your level of interest dismissing a person based on a couple of words and a brief second of time. We order from groceries to any type of product that we want any where in the world with a click of a mouse.
So sanitary. So efficient.
We ride in our cars to and from work, isolated from others. We eat meals as families with our noses in smart phones instead of talking to our loved ones. Then as we slowly isolate ourselves- we slowly wonder why is it even though we are surrounded by others and brushed by others ideas and thoughts even through things like this medium- we muse why do I feel so alone.........
You know what...
Today... I am putting down the computer for a bit and actually speaking to someone, looking them in the face... eye to eye... and where I can see their expression and not just their emojis. YOU?
The Fear of Being Exposed
You know it seems that many of us are nearly panicked in fear that we will be exposed some day. I am not talking of the fear of being caught in a public or semi-public setting without clothes. This is much more personal and fearful for many of us.
It is a paralyzing fear of being exposed emotionally. Exposed for what we really are beyond all of our walls. That somehow, behind all of the walls we manufacture with false experiences, fake reality and mortared together with years of "safety" behind them that we are truly safe. That we won't truly be hurt if we never let anyone in.... never drop our walls, never show them the true us.... and won't be vulnerable.
And yet I believe, it is this indescribable fear that we have to face and walk through if we are ever to have the chance to find our true partner in life... I was talking with a friend of mine and she said she couldn't let down her walls as she was always scared the men that came through her life wouldn't accept her if they saw everything about her.
I didn't say anything at that point as it is where she is at... but how do you truly go skydiving and experience the rush of it... from the safety of the plane? You have to step out into your fears to truly experience it. Do I? I try to let my walls down, and truthfully I have been hurt more times than I care to admit.... but I believe somewhere there is that one- that will love the character and strength... perseverance and humor that comes from each one of those scars....
So don't be scared of dropping all those walls, pretenses, etc... etc...
I don't know about you... but they get heavy trying to lug around.
His words sum it up in ways that no writing can.... any parent dealing with visitation should be able to feel this completely.
To the left or right?
Many times in my life I have felt that I had no choices. Most of these were my own mental perception. Designed I guess to make me stay within the paths of a normal good citizen of life, have a job, earn money, support your family and give back to your economy. None of them are bad in and of themselves, but it creates a sort of drugged identity that never lets you step out of your comfort field.
So for that, I want to say to those that allowed me to be thrown into a new chance in life at almost fifty to reinvent myself yet again..... thanks! I know you don't see it right now, but what will emerge from this is an even more resilient person. What you did- allowed me to see, I can make a change in my life, it isn't as tough to make as I thought it would and that age doesn't define you. Thank you for allowing me to see that.
Another thing that I am seeing through this change- is that success needs to be redefined. For many it is based on the toys, assets or money that you amass. True from a literal definition, But, in my life- success is taking on a new definition. Life has a way of going in cycles much like the sea. Any pirate that has been on the water knows there are times when the sea is calm and you ride smoothly and there are times when you cling for your life and hope you make it out alive.
Like life, the sea can be very kind or very brutal and does not care your title, rank or what you sailed across it that day. Life, like the sea can give or take away in a instant. So assets, money, family..... all can be there or taken away in a instant. If we measure this as success, there are going to be times you feel like a complete failure.
So we have to figure out a new means of measuring success. My suggestion is by whether life's troubles and blows keep you on the mat, or whether you get back up again and start over if necessary. This time wiser, smarter and a little tougher. That is who I am working to be.
Life may have knocked me down hard. But I am rising back up- even a more fierce competitor, a better pirate and even more ready to do battle again....so as I seek out my future- know that knocking me down is only going to make me harder to beat next time. You have been warned!!!
Free to go as you please
For some in life they need a highway that gets them from A to B with no detours or points to get lost at. Anytime they do veer it is nothing but frustration. For me it is the journey- go where the wind and sea take me. Every day is a new learning adventure to meet new friends, search for more treasure and see new lands. Being on the sea allows me to never be lost, never off course.
You are only off course- when you have a desired course.