I have set it up alright I think. Shiny used car, handy used tractor, shed almost full of wood (not enough for winter, but we'll be able to cut through September and October), and a girl who almost might be mine ( Read more... )

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So here is the second installment in my personal series about the Black Sea. We spent four days in Odessa, Ukraine. We moored in kind of an industrial area and unlike Batumi we were forced to take a bus to the center of town. Odessa seems to have all the nice things centered around a beach and the center of town. The advice is to stay in the center ( Read more... )

I will try to tell you about the ports we visited in a little bit of detail. I don’t think it would be right to try and remember all of it at once, but I will try to send a little bit at a time. I know I mentioned some of it earlier but I will say it again.  If I have to.

We just left Batumi, Georgia which is right along the border between ( Read more... )

break the quiet and learn to wear each other well. And when the worrying starts to hurt and the world feels like graves of dirt then just close your eyes until you can imagine this place. Yeah, our secret space at will ( Read more... )

There is a tearing apart now. I cannot stand the idea of the Naval Reserve, because like the navy itself there is some reason to tell me how my hair might be. Sure, I could get insurance more cheaply, but in the most basic forms I would be tied to the same rock. There is no urge to run my hair out without thought because to look professional has it ( Read more... )

How do people get through life having only thought of one pilgrimage? I have a short list...

1.)Gettysburg

2.)Petersburg to Appamatox Courthouse

3.)The Hartwick pines

4.)Grenwich, England

5.)Washington D.C.

6.)Chicago

7.)Moscow

8.)The beaches of Normandy

9.)Istanbul

10.)India

It's just every so often I hear about a place which I just musrt visit. Religion ( Read more... )

I quote a song I know because it is a better way of saying what I mean. Maybe not so precise as if I just said it aloud and maybe that is how we are misunderstood.

( Turn on me )

( And the sea has swept it away. )

I heard that you were home again, but you don't look like your back to me.  With your focuses changing your gaze is transfixed on a point that I can't often see. You've got your new ties, I've got my old knots, you've got your inside lines, but your never happy with what you've got ( Read more... )