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Sailing spirituality

Exploring the Depths

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 […]

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songs

“Freedom’s Call”

I’m currently crewing on a sailboat sailing the South Pacific from French Polynesia to Fiji while stopping in a couple of places along the way. I’ve been waiting for just such a time and backdrop to record and release this video of my song “Freedom’s Call.” Crewing on this boat and two others earlier in […]

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songs

“Move Along”

Here’s a new song of mine called “Move Along.” I started it while camping and sitting along a stream in the Tahoe National Forest in California as the heavy snowmelt created rushing rapids that made it feel very river-like. I worked on the song off an on for the next month or so until I […]

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Watering the Seeds of Change

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 […]

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Sailing

Charting a New Course

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 […]