Solo Ventures

that's a little interesting. when i typed "rewilding" my phone corrected it to "rebuilding". there are some parallels for making life changes, you hear all the time of people rebuilding their lives after a loss or relationship breakdown.  they get a new job,  house or partner. kind of like getting back on the horse on that narrow trail of consumerist dreams, including the white pickett fence i suppose.    what I've been doing steadily over the six years since my dreadful marriage broke down is getting back to my "wilder" roots. before taking vows I'd been a surfer and sailor, having thrown in my trade for an uncomfortable life on the ocean's waves. So in recent years i've been collecting boats and sailing.  some surfing too, but less often because the beaches nearby are so populated.   in my past there had been motorcycles as well. about a dozen or so.  and even during my marriage i managed to get a few more. as usual for me the pursuit...

my friday has begun on a very sombre note.  the leatherman blade that i ordered on Amazon some time ago had arrived from lviv, ukraine. this is 14,906klm away.   Seeing the sender's details and the colorful postage stamps had cast my mind to those poor souls under invasion from the madman of Russia.   Take care friends.  

i am reading a book on kindle titled "sea change". an english/american fellow sailing a small timber yacht westward across the atlantic ocean. it's evident that he separated before departing england and annoyingly the narrative steers towards his unresolved sadness and our how good she is, or was, despite the fact that he learns of her probable infidelities from reading her diaries which she left onboard. i am hoping the penny drops and he feels better about raging against her emotional hold over him.  unlike most modern literature,  sailing yarns are most often male domains.  and as most men in love with the sea and reading books about long solo sea voyaging would be separated or divorced,  it's decent fodder.  it also encourages one to reflect on their relationships.  fortunately, unlike out central protagonist i have moved on to develop a critical opinion of my ex partner.  actually i hgrs fitt ss were to refer to her as ever having been a partner, ...