{"id":1458,"date":"2012-06-28T11:48:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2012-06-28T11:48:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:48:54","slug":"reflections-and-reconnections-vancouver-06232012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"Reflections and Reconnections \u2013 Vancouver \u2013 [06\/23\/2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Don\u2019t look back…how often do we tell ourselves that? Often I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Human beings were built to look back, that\u2019s why we have that swivel joint in our necks \u2013 Stephen King<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said before that ship life is very unusual in regards to relationships, all relationships not just the kind with the capital \u201cR\u201d. You go for months \u2013 sometimes much longer –\u00a0 without seeing the people dear to you. The thing is, that makes the reunion a lot sweeter when it comes. Even when it\u2019s brief.<\/p>\n

I normally don\u2019t get off the ship in Vancouver, it\u2019s a turnaround port and my only morning off which usually means I crash out early the night before and sleep late on the Saturday morning (in fact, I was so tired last night that I was out like a light at 7pm and didn\u2019t wake up until 6am…so much for the idea of quick nap before going to the show) \u2013 but when your best friend writes you and says that she\u2019s rescheduling her flights so that she can see you for three hours in the morning (and I do mean a serious reschedule), you tend to do a pretty good imitation of a headless chicken running around getting everything arranged so you can<\/em> get off the ship (\u201cagaah! Why do I have IPM! Someone take my IPM pleeeeease?\u201d).<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect when I saw Gabrielle, we parted ways in quite a different place than we are now, and a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.\u00a0 I suppose I should have known better than to worry. Family is, after all, always Family. You might find yourself hurt by them on occasion, you might fight, you might \u2013 on very rare occasions \u2013 hate each other, but at the root of it all, they\u2019re still Family.<\/p>\n

There are far worse ways to start a day than sitting on a log at the beach, in your own country \u2013 though not your own hometown \u2013 admiring the Canada geese, and eating fresh baked (organic \u2013 go me for being healthy) bread with homemade jam. You have amazing conversations in those circumstances; you friendships take very reassuring leaps. Some journeys last years, some only last a few hours \u2013 it\u2019s a tossup which are the more important.<\/p>\n

My life is a constant turn-over of people and places, but as I\u2019ve always said \u2013 the anchor lines stay. Sometimes they strain, sometimes they fray, but they almost always stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t look back…how often do we tell ourselves that? Often I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Human beings were built to look back, that\u2019s why we have that swivel joint in our necks \u2013 Stephen King I\u2019ve said … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3GtNE-nw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}