Miscellaneous Ramblings

by an Old Sailor -- Terry Vick

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” H.D. Thoreau

"I am immersed in a culture that defines success by how much you own.  It’s the pervasive culture here in Marin.  I live on a sailboat, but that does not insulate me from the “successful man” who must own, buy or earn not enough but more than enough.  He compares his possessions to others and then relishes his excess.  He thinks his thumping surplus ..... "

*TO THE LIST OF NARRATIVES AND PHOTOS

*ABOUT THE CUTTER "LOVE OF LIBERTY"

*ABOUT THE SCHOONER "SILVER HEELS" 

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