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New on the writing page, and need a few days of zazen.
Added another bit of writing based on a thought that came to me on public transport. What was the belief system of someone like Merlin or Bar-Jesus, the court magician who confronted Saint Paul in Cyprus? My thought was that they could not have had a binary system of ‘good’ and ‘evil.’ They knew the …
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First time out with ‘Resolute.’
As always with a second-hand boat, you discover you bought a few of someone else’s problems. In this case, one I found was the two seacocks in the heads- that’s the toilet- that needed replacing, so I booked the boat into a marina and ran aground twice on the way there. The trip looked …
Get this life sorted.
It’s been a busy time organising whatever number of years I have left on planet Earth. But it’s coming together, and I recently bought an old 30-foot yacht and am planning new adventures after realising on a recent bikepacking trip that age is catching up with me. I struggled up hills while dragging a loaded …