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.

The Elixir · Ocean Navigator Caribbean Blue Journey Eleven ships, exotic ports, ritual space, and the decision to exchange material success for time, resourcefulness, and a life that felt real. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Time spent in ritual space—and getting in touch with your inner Wild Man Avatar—renews mojo and restores a sense of life as a quest. Ritual Space Fade In: Caribbean Blue Super Bowl Sunday—the high holy day of masculinity for AmeriCANS—is one way to enter ritual space. Cruising to exotic ports of call is another. FADE IN: Enya’s Caribbean Blue is a new-age speed bump in a 405 Los-Angry...

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,...

Foreign Land · Back in the Saddle My Mane Concern Keep the horse between you and the ground. Then let the shoreline rearrange what you thought the horizon was for. Horseback Ocean Freedom Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Back in the saddle again. The art is simple: keep a horse between you and the ground. With animals this well trained, riding becomes a kind of connect-the-dots. Still, heaven is high and earth is wide—and you see both differently when you are three feet higher than the other tourists. Field Note Height changes the horizon. A horse does not merely move you through a place. It changes the altitude from which the place enters memory. 01...

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

Foreign Land · Willemstad All I Want for Christmas Is a Suntan A Dutch-driven ship. A Dutch colonial town. Caribbean light, good-natured people, and a Christmas list reduced to one thing. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Field Note · Curaçao 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 suntan. The Asymmetric Equation Dutch Ship + Caribbean Light = Christmas Rewritten ...