Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Here’s wishing you health, wealth and happiness so we can all continue to receive the gift of your insightful observations and wonderful sea stories. May you never suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, hemhorroids, colo-rectal cancer or other horrible afflictions of the lower digestive tract. Other people can be enough of a pain in the ass.
I wept when I heard about Dana Reeve – for all that she gave up to take care of Christopher Reeve, for all that she became because of that and for all the promise that remained for her to fulfill and for their 13 year old son, now without both parents to guide him thru the next phase of his life. A life most certainly cut short before she had a chance to live it. Dana Reeve is the kind of role model we ALL need in our lives. What a terrible loss for her family, for her friends and for humanity.
Lex, May you always sail on a beam reach in blue skies and gentle seas.
If I may be permitted to wax philosophical a moment: God doesn’t DO fair, otherwise we all would have been created as Seraphim, or as a minimum, be permitted to choose our parents before we are born. One of the great mysteries of the gift of life. Gotta wait for the real answers. That is the hard part. God bless Dana Reeve as she showed the world what real love is.
Uh, just read your latest and greatest. I will quietly leave the pulpit now…..
There really is no such thing as ‘right’ when it comes to who gets the randomly selected long life and who get the randomly selected short life. Life is cruel for many whilst the rest of us avoid the fact that it can all be snatched away tomorrow.
God rest Dana’s soul and give her peace.