What is around the corner?  Adventures feel at hand. Tomorrow I take my husband and two oldest sons to sail home our newly purchased Catalina from North Carolina to Virginia.  The maiden voyage will take several days. The three of them will work out the kinks and establish sea legs hopefully that will make them the confident sailors I need them to be for my own comfort in beginning our new life with this boat.  I am excited because I anticipate warm summer evenings on the water with the people I most enjoy. This is a dream that my husband has had for many years and now we will test the waters.

My dreams have been simpler but this one of his folds and melds nicely with my own.  He dreams of brisk winds and working the sails.  He delights in plotting the course and planning the trips  while I imagine a cold beer in hand in a quiet cove somewhere with time to write, read, and draw.  I hope that the boat will be the platform for fun conversations, good food, and interesting places to explore.

It’s a small enough vessel to require interaction and communication of its passengers and I am hoping that my young adult children will be open and available for this throughout the months ahead.  I have been slowly recovering from an awakening of sorts as to whom I want to spend time with, and I am hoping that  Kestrel  will provide opportunity for me to be closer to those people I have in mind.  

Will expectations disappoint? What happens when there are lots of bodies in hot or rainy weather?  Will boredom ensue?  I will stay open to what comes!  If rough waters challenge us, or I find it’s just me and my mate as my kids find other things to pull them, I think that will be just fine too.  I am excited about the unknown! I look forward to whatever may come.

Not so long ago I was terrified of even talking of these things.  Life for me has changed and I see things very differently.  I am not afraid.

What adventures are waiting for you? How can you see the very same thing through a different set of lenses?