February 13, 2006 Monday How do you think of time? It is linear? There’s always been one way I’ve thought of time, in terms of years, and I’d like to know how normal it is (I hope not very). First, it is dark. Not for dramatic effect, just because I don’t know what non-time…
Tag: at sea
Seeing the Light (Coming Home is a Religious Experience)
October 29, 2006 Sunday Hey guys. Overall today, I am doing well. It is a “6” day out of ten, which must be graded, as always, on the Naval Curve. I have a countdown drawn out next to me. In the lower corner is Africa, and then there are thirty circles in descending numbers…
Faint Flares in the Distance
“Berkey” August 3, 2006 Thursday Berkey and I always give each other a hard time. He’s in charge of mail and post office, so I have a natural hook-up there as well, which I have used on several occasions to get things to Virginia when it would have been normally “impossible.” Tonight there was…
The Unforgettable Fire
June 26, 2006 Monday I had to laugh this morning at my small UPS shrine that has arrived. I really just thought it would be a little package, once a month perhaps, for a small reminder of home. You’ve been sending things off though, as far as I can tell, nearly once a week. It…
Chickens in Pants
June 23, 2006 Friday Marley– We are not the most news-making vessel to ever leak along, in elongated Mediterranean circles, so I must redefine the term. Below is a collection of odds and ends that I have been collecting this week for you, like the careful rationing of flour to finally create the smallest of edible…
Over Brunch
June 18, 2006 Sunday It is Sunday. Have a brunch with me, somewhere between our distant two points, in a small cafe in Paris. If only for a moment. I feel better today. This might be the best news I can type that can be condensed into four words. My moodiness has passed, even…
To One Day Be Mad
June 11, 2006 Sunday I must make it a point to be more depressed more often, what good it will do for my spirits! No, I have not gone mad, but God do I wish I already was. At two of my lower points in the last months you have come that perfect, movie clichéd…
Our Worst Fear
June 2, 2006 Friday The ship today as a whole is a little off, and for very good reason. A person I worked with in Damage Control those many months received some horrible news early this morning by way of a Red Cross message. His five year-old daughter died last night. From what little I…
Musings, Small Yet Bright, Like the Stars Above
“Holding Steady” May 23, 2006 Tuesday In the middle of the Atlantic. I once wondered what it would be like to surrounded by water only, and here I am. I am beginning to read the many books I found in Portsmouth, beginning with O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. Spirits holding steady. “To New Things”…
A Succession of Thoughts Before the Waves
“For Good” May 15, 2006 Monday My last night before leaving. It’s also a duty night, so I am on the ship for good, not to touch American land until November. Not that it matters at this late point. If it is not packed away by now it isn’t coming with me, but there is…
Rough Seas
March 10, 2006 Friday The seas are today throwing us around like a bad carnival ride. This morning I had a dream I was on a plane undergoing extreme turbulence, the pilot continually giving the plane gas and then braking. The subject for a few days has been schools and such so I wanted to break…
No One Will Believe You 