I've got plenty of fun and ridiculousness to blog about in the coming days, but for now, I felt this reflection from Kenny was extremely a propos:
Boats… and oceans… and islands… and the sun moving across the sky. It is a whole other way of life, and a whole other way to live. You can’t know – as I didn’t until I started spending time in the islands – how peaceful sitting on the front of a boat, feeling the waves hitting the bow and watching the clouds do much of nothing is until you’ve been there, yet somehow I think we all sense it.
This was a map to the life I found in the Caribbean; this is a map of the soul that emerges once you experience how still you can be.
We all need songs to sing. Some of us need to write down our truth, and I am one of those people. These are about where I’ve been, what I’ve seen and especially who I find myself becoming.
Life is a journey, as much as it is earning a living, and finding your place in the world. Along the way, if you are paying attention, it’s the people you meet, the stories you hear, the lessons you learn and the way it all makes you feel. These are some of my stories, my travels, and the people who’ve crossed my path.
-Kenny Chesney
It's currently frigid in New Jersey, where I currently am for about 12 days. My one hundred pounds of luggage is apparently on island time, and wanted to stay in Ft. Lauderdale. I am hoping it will catch up, since it holds every Christmas present I had purchased. Eeek!
Until next time...
You know you love me.
XOXO
- Island Girl
"That is, without a doubt, the worst pirate I have ever seen."
When I was little, I walked on my tip-toes and tried my best to avoid walking barefoot on the grass. I was a bit of a priss (and still am!) I do not eat fish, nor do I so much as dip my toes in the Jersey shore water. So you can imagine everyone's surprise when I declared that I was moving to a Caribbean island. This journal is to document my significant (and not so significant) encounters and experiences, as well as record my imminent culture shock. I hope you find my reflections enjoyable and, in all probability, comical. Yo ho!
18 December, 2008
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