Chasing The Blue Beyond

The Sea Years / A Zen Sailor's Memoir From Monk to Time Millionaire Six times around the world. Thousands of empty horizon hours. A few moments when the sea collected every thought and left only the next necessary action. See Full Image Show Text The sea does not make life exciting. Most of the time, it makes life quiet. That is why the moments of sheer terror arrive with such authority. Field Note 01 / Departure The bridges burned behind me became navigation lights. Home is a heading One day my life will flash before my eyes. I am making sure it is worth watching. My life has not improved by chance. It has improved by change. When in doubt, I chose movement. The changes were usually preceded by chaos, and the bridges I burned often lit the way. At sea, the past loses its voting rights. There is no YES in yesterday. You are what you are on that watch, in that wea...

I'm in my own world--but it's ok--they know me here My definition of Magical Thinking,  or MT-ness, is when  we can manufacture experiences in our mind, and then later, attract these situations into our life.   The mind IS, after all, what the brain DOES.  Put simply, you  attract into your  life whatever you consistently think about.  I always go back to the importance of being Ernest (Hemingway):  "That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that wa y" My definition of Thinking is when your  mind is separate from your  body: Some call it dreaming. I call it using your i magination. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.  That's when you can leap long distances,  go  forward and backward  in time, walk   through solid brick walls and never age My Passion = Anger + Love   I live in my own world, but it...

2012 2010 2009 2011 (Hawaii) In One yEAR and Out The Other  Because my future looks so bright, Ship Life is a series of Sunglasses, here is Curacao.The sum of my problems here is the inability to sit quietly alone on a beach! It is easy to mistake motion for progress and no problem is so big and complicated that it cannot be run away from. I know what to do-swim with my friends the dolphins.  Nothing Is The Hardest Thing To Do. Curacao Now . So why, when all has been achieved, the ambrosia has been drunk, and we have conversed with the gods, why come back to normal life with all its cares and woes?.Joseph Campbell, refers to this, in The Power of Myth.  The Hero's Journey of personal development-Life's great adventure of growth,learning and discovery -Departure,  Initiation and now Returning-- As I go beyond following my bliss, there's nothing left to "see" in these islands. Instead, there is a some one else to be.

 Time spent in "ritual space", and getting in touch with your  inner Wild Man Avatar renews  mojo and a sense of life as a quest. Super Bowl Sunday--the high holy day of masculinity for AmeriCANS is one way to do it. So is cruising to exotic ports of call. FADE IN: Enya's  Caribbean Blue   is  a  new-age  speed bump  in a 405- Los- Angry-Cars(LA)  traffic jam.  Sail Away ,  her other hit,  is  navel gazing concussion  in a  Lakota-style sweat lodge ceremony . Regular or extra crispy, take your pick. "Everything you can imagine is real"  ―   Picasso  My universe is made of stories, not atoms: land, air and sea travel and the power of now. If I wanted to be a multinational soul, I couldn't do it in cities where I taught English like New York or Los Angeles, Paris or Tokyo alone-I needed to get consecrated by sailing on the oceans. It's a wonderful thing to get rid o...

We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore  We can laugh our lives away and be free once more"  I used to think that working on a cruise ship was bad so I stopped thinking. Two  songs that inspired me to sail are - Cool Change  ,a top 40 Aussie hit, and The Blues Image's,  Ride Captain Ride, Well I was born in the sign of water And it's there that I feel my best  "If there's one thing in my life that's missing It's the time that I spend alone Sailing on the cool and bright clear water There's lots of those friendly people They're showing me ways to go But I never want to lose their inspiration Time for a cool change I know that it's time for a cool change And I know that my life is so pre-arranged I know that it's time for a cool change .Well I was born in the sign of water And it's there that I feel my best" -Little River Band "Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay Rolled off of their ship,...

Back in the saddle again.The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground is connect the dots because these lovely animals are so well trained. Still, Heaven is high and earth wide,  If you ride three feet higher above the ground than the other tourists.  It didn't take long for "Blessed"  to get into the swim of things To ride a horse they say is to ride the sky-so now I ride the ocean

And it goes like this... Everyday on a cruise is a fashion show and the ship is our runway.

I am sailing on a dutch-driven ship-Holland America, in a Dutch Colonial town called Willemstad-I love this place! It is visually beautiful and the people are good natured folks. Now all I want for Christmas is a sun tan.

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Travel Archive / 2012 / Hotel @nyware Roam Sweet Roam A year of permanent travel, sea days, island thresholds and writing in motion—organized month by month without losing the weather of the original journey. See Full Image Show Text Operating Philosophy “People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.” Joseph Campbell · The Power of Myth Field Note 01 Home as a Feeling, Not a Place There are three types of people: those alive, those dead and those @sea . Cruising around the world has been one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. It became another stage of my re-entry into Hotel @nyware —an extended break from Normal Life, lived aboard another cruise ship. I was living the dream of PT—Permanent Travel , also known as mini-retirements. I had not been every...