May 26 On the Dock
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donna
Posted on: 05/29/07
May 26 On the Dock
II is happily on the town dock in Bristol RI!!Finally, I got all the sails of II rinsed with fresh water and dried again. Today I will hope to get the canned food boxed up and maybe the clothes consolidated. The canned food lockers are pretty aweful. But it will only take another couple of days to have her more live-able.
Bill and Linda Knowles, friends met in Tortolla at a gig I was singing in Soper's Hole, but who are from Barrington and were my first connection to the Herreshoff museum, have now offered me a room in their house. Wow! These kind of provisions really help me to be able to focus on getting the book going and causes addressed.
We are getting ready for the Bristol Boatshow coming next weekend, June 2 & 3. Inspired Insanity will be placed right along Independence Park's stone wall as long as the weather isn't tempestuous, giving all who come to the fair a look and feel for the living conditions that added to my experience. I'll be playing music alongside friends and the bands scheduled to play from 11-3pm.
To all the local followers: Please come by and enjoy the days!! Money raised will be used to further young people in marine vocations. Anything that brings us closer to the sea is a wonderful experience as she is such a mentor in life. We are talking about doing a raffle of some CD's. For the raffle cost, each can sign my sail which I will have at a table with CD's to purchase, the money raised going to the benefit.
Plans to go to Capitol Hill are made. I'll be on my way a week Monday. I am doing alot of talking these days about the issues of waterways and ocean front land uses, the effects of man on our sea, the greenhouse effect, our precious sea and terra firma family, the wildlife. The more I learn, the scarier it is.
There isn't time to waste. And somewhere deep within I am realizing the necessity of saving the natural kingdom. Truly it is the source of the energy of life, health, and goodness on earth. I am more certain than ever that it is in understanding our oneness with this life-giving force and the ability to care for her that the like tragedy destroying humanity is also saved. We need the mother earth and sea to heal the abuses to humanity as well. I don't know if I feel the natural kingdom is more or less a victim than the human being being raised in the unatural separatist indoctrination of culture and socialization today, but we are all in this together.
The challenge is to visualize health, visualize a world where we belong, steward and share the resources of the world. I had the privilege of spending a week with Angie Diester who spent 14 years sailing and living in the islands of the Pacific. She has been able to share with me the visualization of peoples who are natural and have total belonging, sharing as the basis of their communities. If we can see it we can begin to help to draw it to us at all levels of our lives. I am experiencing it as provisions seem to come on after another. What an amazing potential.
A friend recently said as I entered their kitchen, "Mia Casa, Tu Casa", My home is your home. What an amazing thing to say. Bill and Linda, Will and Melissa, Moe Roddy, the Bristol Yacht Club, Herreshoff Museum, Bristol Marina, Brewer's Marina, Billy Black, last night sailing with Chris Meusler and Jay Miller... So so many.
Yes! the Sailing Was Wonderful on Chris's beautiful wooden 46' Sailboat, (the make escapes me.) Chris and I had met while I was working on my boat in Sakonnet Marina. While on the inaugural sail on II, Chris was out sailing Macanac (sp? sorry) and is she gorgeous on the water. Well, even more so from the foredeck. Thanks Chris and Jay.
I am starting to see a vision to do some racing. I would love to race with Red Dress Racing. The cause of educating women about the devistating effects of neglecting our health, the outcome heart disease, is right up my ally. The old nurse in me, even a cardiac nurse, is riled as Moe has filled me in on the statistics. Check out that website in the "causes" sites at the end of the logs. Possibly by racing, too, I can gain some increased visibility in the yachting community forwarding all the other goals. Life is an open book. What do we really want to do with our lives?
Biggest Hugs to all xoxoxox d
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