#3 Just a few videos

May 2024

Three videos we came up with on the trip from Cape Coral to Barber Marina. I suspect we’ll get better at this as we go, but nope I’m not going to buy a drone and video every moment of the trip. Plenty of others have done that. 🙂

“If we don’t die young, we usually end up leading a life of subdued frustration and get stuck in a groove, but the only difference between a groove and being in the grave is one of depth. Along the way to that grave in the comfortable groove, you might get a new car or a greenhouse or, if you really hit the big time, a holiday home – but these things are palliatives, the opiate of a materialistic lifestyle that is impoverished through lack of meaning. I wasn’t interested in the trappings of material success – all they lead to is entrapment in spiritual failure – and the conventional rewards of career advancement meant nothing to me. With each passing year, I knew I would become more enfeebled and the mad passions of youth would give way to the cautious sobriety of middle age. Whatever happened, I didn’t want to end up slumped in an armchair in an old people’s home looking back on a life of comfortable but frustrated existence. I also knew the world is a big, beautiful place, and I wanted to experience as much of it as I could in the split second of eternity that was allocated to me. I had seen too many friends die young to wait any longer to fulfill my dream. Life is too precious to be squandered in denying dreams, even if they turned out to be sour. I was determined to try and take hold of my life and squeeze every drop out of it. There is no God, no meaning, no purpose – all we have is love and existential experience. The sea was where I might lose one but where I knew I would find the other.” From “The Breath of Angels”