A Day At The Beach One Year Removed!

SHIP'S LOG:

I am at the beach today at TYC and a year ago I was also at the beach, Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina to be exact. Of course, a year ago it was in the 70's where I was and such is not the case here. Looking back to then, what I find interesting is not the weather so much as the fact that things seems better planned, or at least there seemed to be a pretty set plan. I was getting ready to head up to Willmington to see Vin & Anne and then it would be down to Cape Fear and back on to the "Magenta Highway."

Right now, things are sort of betwixt and between. I have picked up the first real cold of the season which doesn't bode well for the months ahead.. ABISHAG has still not been hauled and the two days on which I planned to get her set for the winter didn't pan out due to lots of rain and lots of wind. No word from the powers that be. "House sitting" in Vermont is set though I probably won't go up until after Thanksgiving, perhaps that Sunday. As uncertain as it seemed at the time, the journey seemed a lot more exact and certain, even with all the unknowns and uncertainties to come. Still, it will all work out.My current "spiritual reading' happens to be Stephen King's book, "The Stand." There are a lot of very good spiritual insights in though I would tend to believe that Steve-o hadn't intend it to be so. It can really be amazing how God chooses to speak to you at time, in ways and from places you least expect. The was an important part of the learning process of the trip, getting to the point of not just listening be actually hearing. Of course, the weather and the scenery and the people were very nice as well.