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Category Archives: Reflections
An Awfully Big Adventure – At Sea – [12/31/2016]
What is a life anyway? We’re born, we live a little, we die. ~ Charlotte’s Web A hand above the water, an angel reaching for the sky, is it raining in heaven? Do they want us to cry? ~ Queen … Continue reading
Oranges Scented – At Sea – [12/25/2016]
I’ve said before that Christmas on ships is a very odd circumstance, just when you think you’ve got a wisp of the edges of it, something usually pops up to distract you and then poof it’s gone again. With our … Continue reading
Branching Paths – At Sea – [12/28/2016]
What seems like a very long time ago, or perhaps not that long ago depending on how you look at it. I reached one of those very monumental turning points in my life. I was 19, fresh into university, and … Continue reading
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This is a Recording – At Sea – [12/18/2016]
I suppose everyone has their own idea of what it’s like to record a song. Big head-phones, mounted microphone, madly working sound technician, hopefully a band somewhere in the picture…lay things down in one take, go to lunch. Which is … Continue reading
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Still Foolin’ ‘Em – At Sea – [12/18/2016]
So far this cruise I have had nothing but positive comments, and very enthusiastic students. So much so that I don’t really know what to do with all that enthusiasm. Anyone who knows me knows that as much as I … Continue reading
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Still Bravely Singing – At Sea – [11/11/2016]
In Flander’s Fields the poppies grow Between the crosses row on row That mark our place while in the sky The lark still bravely singing flies Scarce heard amid the guns below. It’s not raining and my feet aren’t slipping … Continue reading
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Complete and Content – At Sea – [11/06/2016]
They say that they built the tracks over the Alps between Venice and Vienna before there was a train that could make the trip. They built them anyway. They knew that …someday the train would come ~ Under the Tuscan … Continue reading
Tropical Rains & Black Pearls – At Sea – [11/03/2016]
A very long time ago now, it rained when I went to Tahiti. The kind of lush tropical rain that made you want to dance in it without the benefit of an umbrella. There was a hand in mine, a … Continue reading
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Almost Paradise – Dranuvi Island, Fiji – [10/25/2016]
In this job, you often think you have found the most beautiful places in the world. And you learn different types of beauty: tarnished, tourist, homespun, glass-fragile, there are many many different types of paradise. But I’ve never seen anywhere … Continue reading
Crossing Over to 34 – At Sea – [10/05/2016]
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind Possessing and caressing me Sounds of laughter, shades of earth Are ringing through my opened ears Inciting and inviting me ~ Pleasantville I thought long and hard about … Continue reading
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