Sovereign Galloped

Our friend Cliff had not sailed for many years and quickly fell back in love with sailing once we were out on the water. Even though Kadizzle has sailed forever, it still is a great feeling to be out on the water with the perfect wind.  Like a wild horse that had been in the barn the good ship could not resist getting up and going. There is just something magic about sailing.  A sailboat is like a spirit moving through the water.  Nothing moves on a sailboat, yet it glides along.  A force from nowhere propels it.

As the light penetrated the bedroom this morning before sunrise Kadizzle thought what could he write about today. One thought that went through his head was " What would an application for the crazy club be like?". The Crazy Club is special, it does not accept ordinary boring people.  So lets try some questions that might be on the application.

1.  Are you a former alcoholic?
2.  Are you easily embarrassed or offended?
3.  Are you capable of seeing the world differently?
4.  Do you have an opinion about anything?
5.  Would you confront someone if you disagreed with them?
6.  Would you shout out Bullshit during a conversation?
7.  Have you ever deviated from the crowd?
8.  Do you despise formality?
9.  Do your friends think you are wound differently?
10.  Does being different bother you?

At the coffee club the conversation is always the same.  " I got three hundredths out at my place last night". " The crops are looking a little dry".   " Obama is destroying the coal industry, and ya know he wants to get our guns too".  Then of course it is the city failing to do something like fix a bad spot on the street.

Some people live in a little box.  They peek out the window, and hope no one peeks in.  Always they live in fear.  Always they worry someone will know something about them. They fear someone will steal a dime from them, they fear someone will get their credit card.  You can be sent to prison, or you can put yourself in prison.  If you are imprisoned by your fears, you are in prison.  If you are afraid to walk down the street, on the edge of a cliff, or across a bridge, then you have built bars that limit your movement.  The worst thing is a mind imprisoned.  Religion is the worst prison in the world for the mind.  Your mind is only allowed to think in certain ways.  So many wonders exist in the world.  Life is like a shopping trip.  What do you want to try, what do you want to buy?  Are you going to look back and say " Gee, I wish I had gone on that trip", or " I should have done this or that".   When you are put on this planet you are handed a handful of tickets to go to the circus.  If you use all your tickets to see the monkey cage over and over, that is your choice, but you will always look back and wish you had seen the elephant, and the tiger.