Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

– Donald Hamilton

So, life intervenes. That’s life, right? We managed to get a bit of the intrusions of our reality under control today and I just took several deep breaths–we’re having fun, right? Yes.

As I gaze at the birds on the water, listen to the wind in the rigging, and enjoy being surrounded by the traditional, old, and “shippy” Mahdee, I am again reminded of the following insight from Henry David Thoreau:

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I finally broke down and purchased “boat cards” so we’d be better able to keep in touch with people we meet. I typically just say “mahdee.com” and figure that if someone really wants to get in touch, they’ll google us. However, rather than giving out business cards which have nothing to do with the boat and rather than having an old fashioned calling card made up (which, btw, doesn’t have contact info on it anyway…) I did the graphics and had an online printer make cards for us. They’re ok. But, what is great about them is that two sided printing is possible. Therefore, I put one of my favorite quotes on the back of the card:

“One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.” Edith Wharton