As I'm often wont to do I'm here at the Ocean at Lands End on a beautiful blustery day. Thinking about the future with an eye toward the past. It's white capping out there with a stiff offshore wind that drives the boat fast and beats you to pieces should you let it.
I remember getting ready to graduate UCLA and looking up from the UCLA dock at the heavy jets wing their cargo to all ends of our earth. I knew then it would be me someday and felt a thrill up and down my spine.
Now it is years later. I've survived travel, a military coup, marriages and more. I'm married to an incredibly beautiful woman now whom I care for so deeply.
We can live our lives in safety and embrace the stultifying dullness that it entails. I could do so but at what price? Would that I rather take a calculated chance to seize that moment to live and revel in the unknowingness!
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