August 10, 2010-A Quiet Place to Sort Things Out (Revision)
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Telaga Harbor, Langkawi
We needed a quiet place and some time to begin to sort things out. The realization that we had to stop crossing oceans, that joint decision that came out of nowhere and put all of our plans and dreams to rest with the suddenness and finality of lightning strike, left us lost with no solid footing or direction, somewhat despondent and perplexed as to what new path forward we would find.
We needed a new star to steer by. The westward star, which was our true guide, suddenly blinked out… and, well, when that rug was pulled we just needed a place where we could think about things and move pieces of the puzzle around until some sort of picture started to appear.
That quiet place is Langkawi, Malaysia. We’ve been here a week and there is no sound but the birds and nothing moves here; even the cows haven’t looked up from their green grass to see what is going on because even they realize that nothing is.
Perfect for thinking about things.
We are not alone here; at Rebak Marina there are others in this limbo where we can’t go ahead and we don’t know how to go back and we’re all thinking about what we want to do. Some of these folks were the same people who were here in January, still living here on their boats and not saying much about their plans. We might have fallen in with this group. In fact we did for a while.
But, it’s all a bit too depressing so we know we need to get out of this space and out of this place.
We know that if the ocean can’t be crossed there must be other options and we’ve got a few figured out, such as shipping the boat to the USA and then going to Mexico to live on it there. There are some other options too. They aren’t all bad.
The positive attitude is sneaking back and new dreams are starting to materialize out of the funk.
The quiet time is starting to bore us. That is a good sign.
Stay tuned.
Fred & Judy, SV Wings, Langkawi, Malaysia
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posted by wingssail at 8:27 PM
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2 Comments:
Looks like a beautiful place to think ... and a couple very nice photo of the captain and his mate ... although both in the same picture would demonstrate a bit more unity of decision. [kidding] :-D
Looking forward to the next chapter for Wingssail.
I really, really liked the Hotel California allusion in the other post, Fred, but I'm glad you're making headway through the funk. That's part of the fun of blogs (and life if we're lucky), we get to write the story in whatever way we want.
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