It has been a long-ish winter of keeping it cool as a risky pregnant lady, but the consistency of change in our life has been rapid. So much so that we have four places to live and want to be down to one by July 1st. We aim to be anchored somewhere between of Mahone Bay and Lunenburg floating for mid May to wait for baby and Willows last month in the Waldorf School.
We have left our gorgeous cottage in the breathtaking Sunny Brook. I think we need to anchor there for a bit, it doesn't get any better!! Nice and sheltered too.
Nova Scotia has a crazy reputation for places to sail as it is the North Atlantic, but really, if you are following all of your cues from the tell tales to your radar and GPS and are properly prepared you should be just fine, fog an all. It is the place that has created my addiction and and is completely to blame for my wanting to raise my kids at sea.
Why I want to raise my kids on a boat comes from a desire for my children to look at the earth with a deeper understanding and a broader perspective than that of a person who only knows what the majority realizes with a certain geographical boundary.
There is a team effort that parallels no other. We all have to do our best in order for the team to be the fittest, there is no going any further than anyone else on a boat. Everyone moves at the same pace, which is the pace of the boat. So you are only as strong as your weakest member. A true team.
From the strong cohesiveness of a team is born a close relationship that blocks walls from within. All the walls or competition comes from outside the boat, and thus outside the relationship that exists between the team members on the boat.
An openness between members also ensues due to the small space and knowledge of each others activities, giving no privacy. You have to become as comfortable with your team as if you were alone, and that can be a difficult task in the beginning.
Knowing this from taking social anthropology, and history. followed by a management degree, I have the history of humanity and how we made history. From a perspective of total impact on the earth as a whole, the first 2 world wars being mild compared to the total annihilation of the earth through commerce. We are a society of massive change and destruction due to the technological advancements that completely ignore the true needs of the earth and its inhabitants. We as humans nor animals nor plants can survive long term the way the people on this earth are headed right now.
So I feel, overall we should all be going back to bare bones. Start your own garden, look into alternative energy sources, look into buying completely local and organic. Get out from behind your screens and roll up your sleeves and get dirty. Take back your family's life and help society live longer as singles and as a whole.
To think that rant came from why I want to bring up my family on a boat.
In the day to day, every trek is a field trip. We prepare ourselves for the trip, we travel the trip then we experience the research. Not much different than the preparation a child receives in school for a field trip. The difference being instead of pages to color and new vocabulary to learn before the trip, followed by a bus ride to the destination and a 2 hour tour with 30 of your peers. We learn the geography, the mathematics of getting there and the culture/history/language/landscape once we arrive.
The best part of all this of course is a child who is part of the most cohesive team oriented family going out to experience the world being properly prepared, confident and excited to learn and see it all with their own eyes. Understanding first hand the importance of why we need to be respectful of everything and every one along the way.
Okay, time to get back to "the lighter side" once we have healthy baby boy, and Willow is done with her schooling for the year, the plan is to sail "up". Hubby and his friends having sailed out of the Halifax Harbour all their lives have only ever sailed "down to Chester, Lunenburg, Mahone Bay area. We intend this summer to do it, we will sail "up" to the Northumberland Straight, visit my family cottage and home and make a couple of trips to PEI to check out the festivities. Sail back to Halifax for a wedding in Early September, then prepare for our final departure south for the end of September.
Well, that's all the wind I have in my sails for today, until next time in Sailing Mamas Galley.
