My personal feelings will remain amiss if I may not place them where they can not come against what I believe to be true. I left my son as a representitive of our holdings in San Francisco. Wife, daughter and myself sailed but two small days ago, bound for Boston! They are both below and have released the contents of their most recent meals. They will both adjust, they must. My son has survived the absence of his father for years while I found my way back to Ohio. Then we, reunited into the mountains of rediscovery. Our claim was a hard row! Him young! GOLD. But refound amonst animals. Mean men. He, a child, held with all manner of man.
I, have left him, stiill, a young man, amongst theives and arbitors of deception. And yet I not only have trust with my son but have witnessed his behavior in solving difficult and isolated problems on many levels of the smallest to the highest society; to what many men of spoiled character but have wealth might consider weak!
This is not what is bothersome. He can see what is in the hearts of man. What is dangerous is because he can: they cannot! Sometimes the masses of ignorance are driven by liars that have desire for a kind of illigetimate wealth. Youth fights back to readily. My son has fire. I swear I also, I have the same. This does not come lightly. My son also holds the power and authority of our co-ownership of the shipping company I am a full partner of from Boston!
Had I have not come under the wing of Fearsy when I was shanghaid, I would have not survived! My wife and two children in Ohio and me alive but on, " The Reefer", bound for China with people's laundry?
I trust my son can handle our business in San Franscisco. Our home on Knob Hill will remain intack.
He stopped being a child while observing a very simple concept. What does a man want? He figured it out for himself. With that understanding a man walks without fear. In that walk is an honest relationship that demands respect without having to prove or explain it.
My son discovered who he is and I know him! He is a grown man. As yet he hasn't his own family but I believe he will make wrong choices. It will be a woman of very strong character and internal beauty that will capture his heart. It will not be for money when she is founded but for love.
This is his business. As mine was mine. So be it. Times are changing. I will change with them. I have a secret goal. It's not what everyman might desire! I would like to to see the year 1901.
Do you think this is much to ask?
Surfing Kauai defined me! Sailing the South Seas measured me. Commercial fishing fed me. The U. S. Merchant Marine showed me! Diving everywhere I have traveled allowed me to become something more and yet something less than the bird pile/fish feeding frenzy I have witnessed. What is above meets what is below, a paradox! No-balance.
About Me
- Robbin
- Sacramento, California, United States
- so salty pieces of coral from surfing Hawaii in the 60's and 70's getting reef pounded living in my body fall through my skin from time to time!
sailing to Oahu
Jimi Hendrix was playing on Oahu. I had never sailed. Surfed Mexico, California, Hawaii! Aw, how hard could it be to sail 90-110 miles from Kauai to Oahu? Piece of cake, right? Remember it was the 60's! This is so bad. We thought we were looking at Kaiena Point,Ohau, knowing we weren't going to make the concert! But at least we were in site of Oahu-wrong! Coy, who had never sailed before, me,who had never sailed before, jeff and Abbott etc. We were looking at the sleeping giant on Kauai! We had done three-sixty's in the night! We sailed on the only tri-marran I've ever sailed on ( except later ) in my life, missed the concert! It was at the Waikiki Shell Ampitheater ( Moon eclipsed . We finally made Nawilwili Harbor! The Skipper tried to give us his boat saying, " It's trying to kill me"! We watched him go stark raving mad not even realising that had we got caught in the channel current we were on our way to Japan! Remember it was the 60's and we were going to see Hendrix. I left out some of the good stuff but I will make up for it later!
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
A New Lava Lava
I think (my first mistake-thinking) if I don't get my feet back in salty water, I'm dead. (maki ) I've
been on dry land far to long! My spiritual self is not being shared and can not survive out of life sustaining
water (salty) but another three months. I don't mind death! What I do mind is being alive with death. When I am sailing I am moving and responding to a living Ocean. When I am surfing I am one with a vibration or a ripple that is in motion. When I'm sitting on my butt I'm bored. I can only paddle my canoe so far!
A fart is only one's body speaking in tongues! Even silent it speaks in a language understood by whoever is in the room that has a nose! When it makes sound an ear hears a b flat or is it sharp? Actually what it is saying is, "It escapes me"! People need interpreters to understand tongues! I like the hawaiian word," Kukai"! Otherwise shi-shi on it! There has to be a boat going somewhere. PLEASE!!! Take me with you....I can sail butt I can't sit.........................
been on dry land far to long! My spiritual self is not being shared and can not survive out of life sustaining
water (salty) but another three months. I don't mind death! What I do mind is being alive with death. When I am sailing I am moving and responding to a living Ocean. When I am surfing I am one with a vibration or a ripple that is in motion. When I'm sitting on my butt I'm bored. I can only paddle my canoe so far!
A fart is only one's body speaking in tongues! Even silent it speaks in a language understood by whoever is in the room that has a nose! When it makes sound an ear hears a b flat or is it sharp? Actually what it is saying is, "It escapes me"! People need interpreters to understand tongues! I like the hawaiian word," Kukai"! Otherwise shi-shi on it! There has to be a boat going somewhere. PLEASE!!! Take me with you....I can sail butt I can't sit.........................
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Time has come yesterday
Time is everything to a sailor! Without a chronometer there is no Longitude. Longitude
exists without being measured by time and mathematics. It is a measurement! But it is really there and has existed before it was measured. One might say, " It existed to be measured"!
A sailor without a sextant relies on:
mechanical societal devices to know where he is in relationship to solid objects that he might run into.
Without radar a vessel might run into another moving in the same condition he is in. Trust and blind faith, that today is not his day to die. Fog, rain, hurricane, all the same! Without knowing where you are, how can you know where to go? Does a sailor go blindly into the great otherness? Yes, he does. He does because in the words of Richard Henry Dana, he is " Before The Mast". Meaning: Following the orders of those above him,! Remember Tennyson? " Charge Of The Light Brigade"? Even the greatest sailor, Captain John Cook, was under orders from his queen to go where no man has gone before. Three times.
One of the things I have learned in my travels is that when power fails, do I? So far, not. Tomorrow is another day! Any boat 1,000 miles from land will not a 7-11, Cragon's Auto Parts, chandeliers, shipwright, engineer, any parts find! Jury-rigger comes to mind but it is even more than that! Your very survival depends on problem solving and usually requires thinking way-y-y-y- outside the confines of " normal" thinking. To me it is fun, and goes with the turf! (pun intended)....To other's, that would be you, think what you will.
Sailing is like God. It sounds good but in practice sometimes it is better to allow imagination and fantasy's to remain intact. Sailing blue water is a complete approach to something one can't control but must be shaped by the force of outside circumstances.
Malaria has nothing to do with weather. It is a part of sailing as is disease, accidents, intents, foreign languages, including cannibalism and very strange clothing and cultural belief systems that support all of the above aforementioned. To talk about them is one thing. To experience them would make you a world traveller and a fine human-- but not a God. Captain Cook was received well in many unexplored places as he was on the Big Island. I believe he didn't know or understand, " Cargo Cultism"? When he returned to the south shore of Hawaii, " The Big Island", with a broken cloud, his ship had suffered storm damage similar to when he ran aground on the Great Barrier outside Cook town in Australia! He didn't know Hawaiians thought he was Lono returned; when he sailed in his first landfall! When he came back with his broken chariot (cloud-sailboat) they tore him apart and kept the pieces, just in case he really was god. Needless to say the crew on the returning distressed vessel were not prepared for that response. The survivors went back to the ship, grabbed their archaic guns, shot a few Hawaiians and got most of Captain James Cook's body parts back aboard to return to England to bury, respectively, for a queen that requested a third journey he did not want to make and did not complete in the body!
Sailing isn't for everyone but religion is. Religion is wishing that what appears to be real exists is without challenging the reality of an imaginative illusion. You can think and imagine that sailing is wonderful and admire sailors for the doing of it. Even envy! After doing it you will have your opinion modified. Sailing isn't for everyone. Either is living in Hawaii! Religion is for everyone. Spirituality isn't.
Truth constantly makes mistakes because it is searching for itself! The search is the truth! No lie.........,,,,,Arrrggghhh, mateys, " The Game Is Afoot"
Does a sailor sail blindly into unknown universes? Yes, daily! One person sails and hates every minute of the experience because they came aboard with a destination in mind. When one sails, sailing is the destination! Anything tomorrow brings is tomarrowful! A sailor smells the present. The clouds, Ocean, lake or stream, the wind, the particular flavor of what the wind brings with it, the sun or lack of, the heat, the cold, sounds of the wind in her sails, fellowship and sharing of the good and the painful. Suffering and celebration. A cup of coffee offered by a Friend who woke up to provide it at the " Dog Watch" under gale force conditions! These things dreams are made of.
Latitude has never been a problem. People give each other latitude, even in their beliefs, which they hold so dearly . And yet, when latitude was all there was, people still sailed when the Earth was flat. But only so far. What a beautiful Ocean on a flat Earth. God providing an endless supply of water so that it could continually fall off the flat Earth unto What? Space the final frontier? No! Into God's cup so He could continually pour more Ocean on us.
exists without being measured by time and mathematics. It is a measurement! But it is really there and has existed before it was measured. One might say, " It existed to be measured"!
A sailor without a sextant relies on:
mechanical societal devices to know where he is in relationship to solid objects that he might run into.
Without radar a vessel might run into another moving in the same condition he is in. Trust and blind faith, that today is not his day to die. Fog, rain, hurricane, all the same! Without knowing where you are, how can you know where to go? Does a sailor go blindly into the great otherness? Yes, he does. He does because in the words of Richard Henry Dana, he is " Before The Mast". Meaning: Following the orders of those above him,! Remember Tennyson? " Charge Of The Light Brigade"? Even the greatest sailor, Captain John Cook, was under orders from his queen to go where no man has gone before. Three times.
One of the things I have learned in my travels is that when power fails, do I? So far, not. Tomorrow is another day! Any boat 1,000 miles from land will not a 7-11, Cragon's Auto Parts, chandeliers, shipwright, engineer, any parts find! Jury-rigger comes to mind but it is even more than that! Your very survival depends on problem solving and usually requires thinking way-y-y-y- outside the confines of " normal" thinking. To me it is fun, and goes with the turf! (pun intended)....To other's, that would be you, think what you will.
Sailing is like God. It sounds good but in practice sometimes it is better to allow imagination and fantasy's to remain intact. Sailing blue water is a complete approach to something one can't control but must be shaped by the force of outside circumstances.
Malaria has nothing to do with weather. It is a part of sailing as is disease, accidents, intents, foreign languages, including cannibalism and very strange clothing and cultural belief systems that support all of the above aforementioned. To talk about them is one thing. To experience them would make you a world traveller and a fine human-- but not a God. Captain Cook was received well in many unexplored places as he was on the Big Island. I believe he didn't know or understand, " Cargo Cultism"? When he returned to the south shore of Hawaii, " The Big Island", with a broken cloud, his ship had suffered storm damage similar to when he ran aground on the Great Barrier outside Cook town in Australia! He didn't know Hawaiians thought he was Lono returned; when he sailed in his first landfall! When he came back with his broken chariot (cloud-sailboat) they tore him apart and kept the pieces, just in case he really was god. Needless to say the crew on the returning distressed vessel were not prepared for that response. The survivors went back to the ship, grabbed their archaic guns, shot a few Hawaiians and got most of Captain James Cook's body parts back aboard to return to England to bury, respectively, for a queen that requested a third journey he did not want to make and did not complete in the body!
Sailing isn't for everyone but religion is. Religion is wishing that what appears to be real exists is without challenging the reality of an imaginative illusion. You can think and imagine that sailing is wonderful and admire sailors for the doing of it. Even envy! After doing it you will have your opinion modified. Sailing isn't for everyone. Either is living in Hawaii! Religion is for everyone. Spirituality isn't.
Truth constantly makes mistakes because it is searching for itself! The search is the truth! No lie.........,,,,,Arrrggghhh, mateys, " The Game Is Afoot"
Does a sailor sail blindly into unknown universes? Yes, daily! One person sails and hates every minute of the experience because they came aboard with a destination in mind. When one sails, sailing is the destination! Anything tomorrow brings is tomarrowful! A sailor smells the present. The clouds, Ocean, lake or stream, the wind, the particular flavor of what the wind brings with it, the sun or lack of, the heat, the cold, sounds of the wind in her sails, fellowship and sharing of the good and the painful. Suffering and celebration. A cup of coffee offered by a Friend who woke up to provide it at the " Dog Watch" under gale force conditions! These things dreams are made of.
Latitude has never been a problem. People give each other latitude, even in their beliefs, which they hold so dearly . And yet, when latitude was all there was, people still sailed when the Earth was flat. But only so far. What a beautiful Ocean on a flat Earth. God providing an endless supply of water so that it could continually fall off the flat Earth unto What? Space the final frontier? No! Into God's cup so He could continually pour more Ocean on us.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Triple lose-third stanza
Hiding behind lies and distortion,
Secret truths, blown out of proportion.
By a friend.
Some friend was he!
Who stold from his friend so secretly!
The things that friend loved
Above all else,
That special friend
Stold for himself............
Secret truths, blown out of proportion.
By a friend.
Some friend was he!
Who stold from his friend so secretly!
The things that friend loved
Above all else,
That special friend
Stold for himself............
Monday, January 3, 2011
Damn it! Hanakoa
People do things for reasons. I could lie or tell a false tale for a purpose. So why would I do this now?
The answer is simple.
When you figure it out let me know! I'm so dumb, I don't know what I am talking about. I decided something that I felt needed to be discoursed that was very important became nought!
And then less! I cn't remember the a I left out of something I have forgotten. A period! Your's
or mine? See-if you can? A great white----polar bear?
I don't get it but, then I'm putting ink to paper! Oh! Shit! That hasn't happened for awhile...That would be like reading a book that I forgot about and never read! Familiar? What reflection? When you look
in the mirror, who do you see? Surely not yourself? Or do you see yourself backwards? I didn't yesterday!
I always nevered until I couldn't! Then I knew nothing forevered came yesterday tomarrow. How much
fun wasn't that? You already asked me.......I'm positively negative about tomarrow's yesterday! Would that be today? In o sense?
The answer is simple.
When you figure it out let me know! I'm so dumb, I don't know what I am talking about. I decided something that I felt needed to be discoursed that was very important became nought!
And then less! I cn't remember the a I left out of something I have forgotten. A period! Your's
or mine? See-if you can? A great white----polar bear?
I don't get it but, then I'm putting ink to paper! Oh! Shit! That hasn't happened for awhile...That would be like reading a book that I forgot about and never read! Familiar? What reflection? When you look
in the mirror, who do you see? Surely not yourself? Or do you see yourself backwards? I didn't yesterday!
I always nevered until I couldn't! Then I knew nothing forevered came yesterday tomarrow. How much
fun wasn't that? You already asked me.......I'm positively negative about tomarrow's yesterday! Would that be today? In o sense?
paradice, two cubes or paradox?
Where does one go when He starts at the top? Kauai no ka oi! Downhill?
Rene Daumal, a frog, died at a young age. 3/16/08-5/21/44..... However he wrote an unfinished book called,
" Mount Analog"! The premise from his unfinished book is when a man has climbed a mountain,
he knows what is on top of the mountain! He also knows what is in the valley. Until he had climbed the
mountain he only knew what was in the valley!
Rene Daumal, a frog, died at a young age. 3/16/08-5/21/44..... However he wrote an unfinished book called,
" Mount Analog"! The premise from his unfinished book is when a man has climbed a mountain,
he knows what is on top of the mountain! He also knows what is in the valley. Until he had climbed the
mountain he only knew what was in the valley!
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