Landlubber


land·lub·ber
[ˈlan(d)ˌləbər]  NOUN
informal ~~~ a person unfamiliar with the sea or sailing.

Extension (with land) of earlier lubber. Compare also landloper . ( nautical, derogatory) Someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship, especially a novice seaman .

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.  ~~John F. Kennedy

It’s what we call… people afraid of the sea or unfamiliar with the sea or those who are very easily seasick or someone who has never been in the open ocean.   People who do not respect the power, beauty, and awe of the ocean and even those who love looking at the ocean from the safety of the shore.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. ~~Vincent Van Gogh

I accept and respect that it is not for everyone.  Even if I do not understand it I respect it.  It just means more ocean for me.  To truly enjoy being in the middle of the ocean, you need a vessel.  A ship.  A boat.  Whatever you want to call it.. you need something to float on.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I mean you got to start somewhere right?  Ok, I didn’t buy it but was completely mesmerized with it.  Along with these other boats spotted on the water in Doha.

“We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”  ~~ Henry David Thoreau

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea. ~~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Other boats, floaters, ships, kayaks, and rafts, in other places.

“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
~~ Anais Nin

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.  ~~Jacques Yves Cousteau

“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
~~ Anthony Doerr

Oceans, Landlubbers, Boats:

My Little Boat; Arr, Matey;  The ship; A Week in NorfolkAnd the landlubbers lie down below, below, below.  Oceans; Ocean Sunset; LANDLUBBERS; BOAT ON THE ROCKS; From Bimini to Space; Bula Bula from Savu Savu; Ahoy me Landlubbers; Ocean; Mid-Week Monochrome #95 – Boats; Sailor Speak of the Week – BlockAn Ocean Adventure ; The Story So Far – A Pirate’s TaleA Real Pirate?  Packet Boat on the Monongahela; A boat with a view

WPC: Unusual POV or My FoR


Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV from The Daily Post

I like odd angles and I definitely have an unusual point of view on most things.  I like eccentric and odd things when it comes to people, places and things.  Sometimes this attribute helps me adapt to new situations and sometimes it causes me to run away from certain “normal” things.  I’m pretty sure this will be my last post in the U.S. so it was a perfect theme for saying good-bye to the area.  The following are photos from Philly, DC and Maryland.  Some of the photos I really enjoyed more because after I took them I struggled with whether they were real or not.  Some of them looked so unreal that I actually increased the distortion with a quick and subtle edit.  I hope you enjoy.

So many I liked, Check them out

  1. Photo challenge: an unusual point of view | Melanie Ryding – Ryding2Health BLOG
  2. Off the Wall | Lucid Gypsy
  3. Unusual as usual | Le Drake Noir
  4. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV | Tvor Travels
  5. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual Point of View « Life&Ink
  6. A Refreshing Point of View | Travel with Intent
  7. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV | Khana’s Web
  8. WPC: Unusual Point of View. | Anotherdayinparadise2’s Blog
  9. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV « The Neophyte Photographer
  10. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV | Thrifty Finn
  11. Weekly Photo Challenge – Unusual POV Via My Cat Blue | Serendipitous Cookery
  12. Weekly Photo Challenge: An unusual POV | Stefano Scheda
  13. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV | Create A Beautiful Life
  14. From the other side | Purple Rosemary
  15. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV | Bams’ Blog
  16. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV « Jag gör världen vackrare
  17. Weekly Photo Challenge ~ An unusual POV… | Lakshmi Loves To Shop
  18. 9-8-13 Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV (#2) | The Quotidian Hudson
  19. An unusual point of view | Zimmerbitch: age is just a (biggish) number
  20. Unusual Point of View | Rebecca Barray
  21. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual Point of View | Sailing Pups
  22. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV | Far from Done
  23. WPC: Unusual POV (Ways to focus on 100 meters) | What’s (in) the picture?
  24. Dandelions and Other Foreigners | Writing Between the Lines
  25. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV | WryGrass
  26. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV #2 | From Ground to Home
  27. Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual POV | Never clip my wings
  28. Weekly Photo Challenge – An Unusual Point of View « LargeSelf

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting


“We are food for worms, lads,” announces John Keating, the unorthodox English teacher played by Robin Williams in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. “Believe it or not,” he tells his students, “each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.” –  Poets.org 

So here I am..I have been sitting for nearly 2 days..sniffling, coughing..wondering if I will live …missing my family and the friends who just finished visiting me in May..a spring/summer cold in June.  In JUNE!!!!   Loads of language homework in front of me I can’t seem to focus on..alone.. alone..all alone..no one to baby me back to health…  feeling a little sorry for myself.  I mean, why wouldn’t I..

POOOORRRRR MEEEE!!!

Then.. I stumble across the Daily Post’s Challenge:  Fleeting.

What an inspirational set of photos and pieces of writing.  An hour disappears while I peruse other’s entries and I find myself inspired to submit a few of my own very recent fleeting moments.  A few times with friends over the past few months.  Happy fleeting moments that you can so easily forget about or take for granted.  I have a great life and here’s to enjoying some of the most recent moments that came and went quicker than I could have imagined.

I hope you enjoy.

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

SUNDAY POST : Attraction


Jakesprinter’s May 5, Sunday posting Attraction brought some awesome submissions from others and was also a great theme for me to catch up on some activities that I have been participating in with my guests and between my studies.  I hope you enjoy visiting these images and might just be inspired to come check out the DC area.

So from sailboat rides to wine festivals…capital buildings to Naval Academies.. Navy memorials to police memorials…historical re-enactments to inspirational sayings and statutes.. welcome to my neighborhood.

iPhoneography Challenge: Portraits of Mother Earth


iPhoneography Challenge:  Portraits of Mother Earth posted on 29 April 2013 by Gracie (http://graciebinoya.com), Polly (http://watchingthephotoreels.com) and Pens (http://lensandpensbysally.wordpress.com).  More bike ride photos from school and pics from around DC.  I hope you enjoy.