Ted Seymour - Explorations of Truth
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu I’ve found that there is nothing more true to be found in life than nature in its unhindered form. It is one thing to imagine a life aligned with that nature, and another entirely to step off the dock and live it. For years, […]
Depth, when attributed to another person, is often a way to signify a sense of inner capacity, a wisdom cultivated over a lifetime of paying attention to and learning from one’s own inner workings and the lives and world around them. It is a capacity to be honored, to be revered, for within those who […]
True change is hard to come by. Our lives carry along with them an immense amount of inertia. Even when times are difficult or we don’t enjoy our lives very much, the possibility of significant change seems to require the daunting task of overcoming that inertia. Whether we admit it to ourselves or not, we […]
When I was about ten years old, my father had returned to the states and bought a small 18 foot wooden sailboat which he launched onto Lake Michigan in Chicago. I cut my early sailing teeth with several short sailing trips aboard “Sunrise.” Decades later, I find myself exploring the Pacific Northwest looking at sailboats […]
I remember a long time ago now sailing with my father and his wife off the coast of the Dominican Republic. Although there were swells, the wind was low so the sea was actually very calm. We came across a butterfly lying still, floating on the surface of the ocean, and I thought to myself, […]