Learning How to Snowboard in the Laurentians

Learning How to Snowboard in the Laurentians

I am reading The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin, slowly digesting his words, often going over sentences 2 or 3 times, essentially taking my sweet ass time about it. I came across this quote this morning and while I highlighted it immediately, knowing there was something of great personal value here, I had to to read it a dozen times before the underlying feeling manifested into conscious understanding.

Sailing on the Fairwinds: On seasickness

Sailing on the Fairwinds: On seasickness

So, that first night heading from Vesterålen to Lofoten? Yup, got seasick.   The Captain had asked me ahead of time if I knew whether I would get seasick or not. I had no idea. I have been in rough seas before: in a kayak paddling among the Broken Island group on the...
Sailing on the Fairwinds

Sailing on the Fairwinds

I still remember my first glimpse of the Fairwinds as she glided her crew into the harbour at Andenes, the northern tip of the Vesterålen archipelago: a silhouette of masts and hull reflected into a rippled mirror of the sunrise, she looked so tiny against the...