Sampaguita’s Life Coach Lessons

The big, big sea humbles stupid little me.

Hindsight is 20/20. My foresight? Blind as a bat.

Waves, deer, motorcyclists, and beer. It’s not the first one that gets you.

You’re not going to follow your rhumb line exactly.

The boat is probably better than the sailor.

The ITCZ and Pacific Northwest sailing. The same thing. Sailing at 2 knots, fighting a contrary current, interspersed with localized excessive winds. In both cases, many people just fire up the auxiliary power. Why do people complain so much about the ITCZ and not the PN? In the PN, at the end of the day, a sweet anchorage awaits you, and the sun isn’t tropical.

You don’t pass over the wave. The wave passes under you.

Sometimes the tack you’re on doesn’t take you where you want to go.

The thing with a journey is that you never know where you are really going.

Sometimes you get the wave. Sometimes the wave gets you.

Sometimes winning is winning. Sometimes losing is losing. Sometimes you think you’re winning, but you’re really losing. Sometimes you think you’re losing, but you’re really winning.

Do you still think the world is flat?