Day 110, Year 8: Some Things Never Change
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013
Weather: Sunny, High in the Mid- to Upper-50’s, Rain on the Way
Location: Lightkeepers Marina in Coquina Harbor, Little River, SC
My great hope for this winter is that I would find the time to start writing a book about our travels around the world. We have been here three months now, and I haven’t written one paragraph. I have done an enormous amount of organizing photos and travel logs in preparation for writing, but the writing just hasn’t happened. My excuse is that we’re too busy living to take time to write about the past. I’m reflecting on this because today Mark found something I had written in 1974 just after we had completed building a cabin in the woods of northern Idaho. Just months earlier we had quit our professional jobs, sold everything we owned, and headed to Alaska to build a cabin in the woods. We actually ended up doing this in Idaho, but regardless of where, it was a life-changing event for both of us and I wanted to write about it so others could share our experience. On the day that Mark and I got married in the fall of 1974, after building the cabin but before living in it for the winter, I gave Mark a book that I called, “Year One.” It included a typed version of the first few weeks of my hand-written diary entries from our trek to Alaska and back down to Idaho. It also included an introduction promising to complete “Year One” so we could use it to write a book about our experiences together. The last paragraph of that introduction could have been written by me yesterday referring to using our logs from our voyage around the world to write a book. “It’s not much of a start but it is something. I wanted to finish it for you . . . but no time. Someday we won’t have that problem.” Well, thirty-nine years later we still have no time. If I have learned one thing in all those years it is that we will always have the time problem. Some things just never change.
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