The slight sway and swing of a boat at its mooring and the very first blush of the morning those have to be among any sailor's happiest memories.
Kedging
The Parlor
Aunt May lived in a sizeable white-clapboarded house not too far from the waterline at the cove. It was the house her maternal grandfather had built so he could keep an eye on his vessels.
The Mallet
The bottle was said to contain the very elixir of creativity. Triple distilled from the best ingredients. It sat encased in a bit of a glass box. On the plaque beneath the box sat a small golden mallet and a legend scrawled on parchment. If you looked very closely at the parchment, you could see the spidery script. The script read: "Open only in great need, drink only in despair, and abandon all hope afterward."
Dictionary
She looked up from the dictionary of obsolete usage, smiled at me, and said, "you are a smiker."
In Between
Did you ever notice how much time gets spent "in-between?" We travel, and most of the time, it is neither departure nor arrival.
Playing With Fire
One of the Baltimore friends had spent, or misspent, a youth working in carnivals and small circus'. As a sideshow side job, he'd dabbled in ( his words not mine) swallowing sharp objects and flame swallowing.
Caution
If you were me in the '60s and early '70s, you always walked with one shoulder higher than the other.
Relationships
While in the Navy, I served with a former professional bull rider named John. He described a bull ride as the most dangerous eight seconds in sports.
Seagulls
A cat can be a fearsome opponent. Ounce for ounce, an enraged feline can do more damage than most other beasties two to three times their size.
Friday Night Party
Down the corridor, a contest was going on between the Grey Menace and his buddy the double clawed Jean LeFoot. It was similar to the human "game" of one punch - give me your best shot, except with paws. They were very bored.
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