Posted in Life skills, Sailing on Feb 22nd, 2012
Cruising Beyond Our Fears (1 of 2) Every sailor fears the sea (and those who don’t are too dangerous to crew with). But long before we cross an ocean or meet our first typhoon we must face a thousand smaller challenges of sailing and navigation – any one of which can torment us with apprehension, [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills, Sailing, Solitude on Jan 30th, 2012
Are You a Nomad? What’s your definition of a nomad? Someone who travels from place to place? Among the last remaining sea nomads, about 2 – 3,000 Moken live along the west coast of Thailand and Burma I don’t think any definition can usefully include constant tourists – people who go places and then go [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills on Jan 17th, 2012
The Death of Common Sense – a witty obituary and indictment of our time These days there seems to be an absolute dearth of common sense. How many times have you caught yourself saying, “That’s crazy!” when some new regulation is announced, or politicians and economists declare their total faith in endless growth on a [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Life skills on Jan 13th, 2012
Quote of the day: “Live all you can….” When I first started blogging my website was called “Life is Your Adventure”, so it’s inevitable that this quote from author Henry James caught my eye this morning. In the novel, the character Lambert Strether declares: Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t [...]
Posted in Life skills, Solitude on Jan 10th, 2012
If New Year Resolutions are faltering – try this different approach and see how you go I hope and trust that 2012 is starting well for you. But if your efforts to maintain your resolutions for the new year are already starting to falter, then read through these quotations and see if they speak to [...]
Posted in Labrador, Life skills, Sailing on Dec 31st, 2011
How do you respond to delays and setbacks? Voyage to Ungava 10 (3 of 3) However much we might want to keep putting a smile on things, we can all sink into deep lethargy and depression when all that seems to happen every day is for yet more problems to arrive. What to do then? [...]
Posted in Life skills, Sailing on Dec 30th, 2011
How to keep smiling in the face of endless problems Voyage to Ungava 10 (2 of 3) It was towards the end of July before I was finally able to leave Englee and head north. By then it was already too late in the summer to consider trying to get north in Labrador. It’s not [...]
Posted in Life skills on Dec 16th, 2011
Well, Lord Byron had money – do you? The life of the bohemian adventurer is still open to you but you’ll have to find ways to come up with the cash to support the lifestyle. When I was 18 I hitch-hiked alone from Cape Town to Cairo. I raised the money to do it by [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Books/Language, Life skills, Sailing on Nov 17th, 2011
You don’t have to be a sailor to admire the extraordinary accomplishments of Sir Ernest Shackleton. His example as a leader is outstanding and the story of how he brought back alive all 27 members of his expedition after their ship was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica can [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Books/Language, Life skills, Sailing on Nov 14th, 2011
Adversity comes to all of us – in greater or smaller measures – from time to time throughout our lives. There’s little to be done about that – but how we react to setbacks, heartbreaks and frustrations in completely within our own control. One of the most inspiring stories of human beings overcoming extraordinary difficulties [...]
"Serendipity" is the art of finding something valuable or delightful when you're not looking for it. It's how you might also define living life as an adventure - which is something I seek to do each day - and accepting whatever happens, happy or hard.
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