2025 Life Logs, Day 30: Working on my VOW Presentation
Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025
Weather: Sunny and Cold Again; Temp 29, Low 23 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
On February 12, I have been asked to give a Voyage of Windbird (VOW) presentation to a church women’s group in town. I’m doing it as a favor for an Encore member who is also a sailor. I told her that I would ‘adjust’ the presentation to highlight churches we visited along the way. For a couple who didn’t attend church prior to sailing out of Boston, Mark and I visited churches on almost every island where we landed in the South Pacific. We did that for a number of reasons. One was to listen to the beautiful, harmonic voices of the South Pacific islanders. Some people describe their singing as having a brightness to it, an almost artificial loudness. But when you sit and listen you can begin to hear that each person is singing a different part, unrehearsed, and it always comes out to be spectacular. We also went to the churches to see examples of the fine wood carvings of each island on display. And then the main reason was to meet the local people. We were always warmly welcomed. And after a church service, we were often invited to come home with the minister for Sunday dinner. So, I spent much of my day reliving some of those wonderful moments and choosing new photos for my presentation to focus on the art, music, and unparalleled human kindness Mark and I experienced. I did not finish the new presentation, but I got a good start.
When I stopped for a lunch break, I turned on the television and saw some of the reporting of the tragic plane crash in the Potomac River in DC. Unfortunately, my timing was such that I saw the first part of Trump’s press conference about the crash. It shouldn’t shock me, but that he turned to name calling and blaming was more than I could take. I turned off the television and adopted a slogan that was put out there by Robert Reich today. “SAY NO to BIGOTRY.
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