Wilhelmina crew is off to Conyer Creek in a few minutes to sail on Vechtlust II all the way to Sunbury on Thames!

How do you know when you are enlightened?

I know now why I don't keep a blog or a diary other than when we are on holiday! too many things are happening in my life! In the last 3 weeks: I had my first mammogram -what a worry and what relief when it was done, my little 2cv was burglared and damaged - and mended, just about, with Robin's good help, Patrick and Anna were on holiday, Anna took us out for a meal, I took Patrick out for a meal John Russel came for a couple of days, I went Scottish Dancing for a whole day with Eileen at the Argyle School and I drove Patrick back to Loughborough (in a hired car:)...
why does my life feel so turbulent?

The answer might be "enlightenment" or rather lack of it!

Enlightened action leaves no wake. If your action leaves behind it a broad and turbulent wake of disturbance to yourself and other people, then you may be sure that it is unenlightened action. But when a person is gliding through the water with no wake happening at all, when nothing special seems to be going on, he or she may think, "How dull my life is." But it may well be that those are the times when you're doing exactly the right thing, because there is no wake following an enlightened act.
(from Roar of the Tigress, The Oral Teachings of Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett: Western Woman and Zen Master)

"Before time was, a ray of Your beauty was breathed into existence Love woke up; and set the universe alight"
From MIRRORS OF THE UNSEEN - Journeys in Iran, by Jason Elliot

Sitting on the pontoon in the sunshine, sanding blocks

Newport
Our good friends from Scottish Dancing, Sue and Alan, walked by the other day whilst I was sanding the wooden pulley blocks. "What's happened to the blog?" they enquired. And I thought, our life is just as eventful here, on good old Wilhelmina, as anywhere else in the world, so why not carry on? Moreover, I feel time rushing by and I am reminded of Alan Bennett. Keeping a diary, he says, is like Miss Shepherd (The Lady in the van) dragging her feet on the ground while he is pushing her wheel chair. It slows the time down...