Look back

As Snookums nears the Islands (Captain Coby predicts Sunday) we look back to her launching ceremony at Astoria.

For Coby as he sets sail

 

 

ON A DAY WHEN THE WIND IS PERFECT

 

On a day

when the wind is perfect,

the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.

Today is such a

day.

 

My eyes are like the sun that makes promises:

the promise of life

that it always

keeps

 

each morning.

 

The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere,

both caress the earth with great

tenderness.

 

There is a breeze that can enter the soul.

This love I know plays a drum. Arms move around me;

who can contain their self before my beauty?

 

Peace is wonderful,

but ecstatic dance is more fun, and less narcissistic;

gregarious He makes our lips.

 

On a day when the wind is perfect,

the sail just needs to open

and the love starts.

 

 

Today is such

a day.

 

Jalaludin Rumi (1207-1273)