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Selkie - Leg 1: BVI to Bermuda



Written Monday May 7, 2018. Two days in. 

In the Middle of Nowhere is Everything. Who am I? As a mom and individual with my own desires I ask myself this question all the time. Today, seasickness left the crew and we had what could be called a normal/eye-opening experience. The waves come in huge swells that you are sure to consume you but don’t. Boats! Are incredible. To sail on natural wind across an expanse of such magnitude is mind boggling. Our ARC friends from VA, I’ve heard, are having a much harder time. If we stick East to the rum line, we think we will miss these storms approaching that they are engulfed in. All the weather reports of small 5 knot winds are very wrong. The ocean, our planet, is a water plant. Blue. Inside us and out. It’s volatile and consuming. It is in control of so much more than we know. Control is a blessing out here that may be gifted and swiftly taken away. I chance it to move and live and feel both up and down and unstable, close to death and closer to living. Sail away. But not if you think it’s a holiday, but because you know it will alter your whole reality. 

~Maggie




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