Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

Life’s too short to sit around and listen to angry people all the time – don’t you agree? I find too much time in the aura of anybody’s anger only serves to cast a dour attitude on me, and I’m worth more than that.

This becomes a recurring theme: places are special because of the people there. We’re meeting many people in different places, but are yet to find one of the places where they don’t value human life like we do.

Many people around us hold keys to valuable insights, and the only path to those keys is to minimize my arrogance and hope they can overcome their fear of condescending.

//Having worked on a book about our experience during our circumnavigation, I wish to begin sharing that book here.  Please feel free to comment.  Today’s post is the  introduction to Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home.  I plan on making the book available for purchase in time for Christmas, and wish to have an idea [...]

//In yesterday’s post, I said I am proud to be an American.  I did not say it in some sort of “rah, rah, we’re the greatest,” context, and I find that context to be somewhat distasteful.  The truth is that we’ve been given more than anyplace else I know of.  It is a birthright current [...]

Another American curiosity was brought to our attention from people in every place we visited where it became a topic of discussion. “The Constitution of the United States of America is the greatest document ever written,”

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When we were travelling, we didn’t think too much about the food we were eating.  Oh sure, there were certain cautions we had to mind, like the snail in Southeast Asia that was poison and would sneak into the lettuce and just sit there waiting to be eaten.  But for the most part, food, once [...]

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Emily fixing a hatch on Faith
My grandpa could fix things.  Oh, he was a little rough around the edges when it came to the craft, to the getting all of the little finesse-type details handled to make something feel like new again.   But when it came to utility, to getting whatever it was that he [...]

//I was born two years too late to take part in America’s conflict in Vietnam, but I grew up with Walter Cronkite providing nightly coverage of it.  By age 13, living on Hampden Drive in Lansing, I knew I didn’t want anything to do with what was going on over there.  Those images in the [...]

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Earth at Night
More information available at: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the [...]