From the heart

It's now been twenty days since we left Cape Town and five days since we
left St.Helena. We have sailed about 2500 nautical miles,which equates to
roughly 4600 kms. The ocean have warmed from 14*C in Cape Town to 27*C
where we are now at 10*47'S and 016*41'W. And strange that we haven't seen
any dolphins so far besides a few when we got to St.Helena. Our lures have
been trolling behind us for most of the time and just about no fish, the
one dorado we did hook got away, lucky fish. One whale when we left Cape
Town, other than that just a lot of flying fish scattering around. Have
we really depleted the ocean of fish and now dolphins as well ??? And the
whales ??? WHAT DO WE LEAVE BEHIND FOR OUR KIDS ??? And the generations
that will follow our generation. Out here one becomes acutely aware of the
atrocities we commit as so-called custodians of our planet. Our insatiable
thirst for violence and destruction and consumption. Our ignorance of how
we are being indoctrinated, blinded, misled. How we are being manipulated
to make war against each other. All in the name of progress !!! I ask
again, where are the dolphins, the whales, the fish. I am crying, and I am
deeply ashamed to be part of the human species when I look around me and
see what we have done and what we are doing to ourselves, our fellow
human beings, and all the creatures we share our planet with. Our
rainforests, our rivers, our atmosphere and so we can carry on and on.

The greatest atrocity of all is that we have lost contact with who and
what we really are. Spirit. Spirit is that which we have conveniently left
to worry about when we die. We are too busy trying to make a living to
worry about that now. Leave that for later, for now we first have to
secure our material needs, satisfy our greed and accumulate so called
wealth. Sure, we can set aside an hour or so once a week and fool
ourselves believing that we may be ok when we die. Our lives are neatly
packaged and divided into quick and convenient solutions. But do we ever
for a moment take a moment and count the cost.

There is no need for hate, and yet we hate ourselves, and that flows over
into our actions. There is no need for greed and yet we just can't enough.
There is no need for war, and yet we make war against each other. There is
a dire need to get in touch with our spirit again. It is a faint little
flickering flame that we have have pushed to the deepest recesses of our
instant lives. The sun has just peeped over the horizon in the background,
golden bright ball of fire. I am going to look for my little flickering
flame of spirit. I have to. I have no choice. I know the truth. And I want
to bring it back to where it belongs. I want to carry it in front of me.
And I hope you will do the same. And hopefully together we can start a
brand new day. That is the only true hope we have. To be one in the spirit.