adventure – Greg Blee

Climate adventure

I’ve been taking a nine-week … course? workshop? gathering? … called Living into the Earth Emergency. You can get an idea of what it’s about from the website, but basically about 20 people get together weekly to explore the planetary polycrisis, in a structured format.

For week #5 (Change and Change-Points), our homework was to think about “how change happens.” I’ve got some “external” ideas that I’ll lay out in another post, but it occurred to me that change also happens internally. So here’s my little report on that.

Sailing the Red (a letter)

Well! Here’s a window on a past life. A good friend’s father recently passed on. The father was also a friend; among his effects was a letter i sent him back in 1994, and it made its way back to me.

It’s a 9-pager, handwritten in ballpoint on scribbler pages, completed in segments while coaxing Triangle Island, my 18-foot open yawl, north through the Red Sea’s myriad hidden reefs and wild desert winds. Reading it was a trip back in time, evoking the emotions i was feeling while immersed in a dangerous solo adventure. Here are a few excerpts: Continue reading “Sailing the Red (a letter)”

Moving up in the gene Poole

Another eccentricity of my privileged Tofino house-sit is that i must vacate it periodically, when the owners to return or, sometimes, their house-swap partners. As of today i am on one such hiatus. Sometimes i luck into a temporarily empty apartment, sometimes i leave town to visit friends. This time, though, i decided to scratch a longtime curiosity: I’m living for three weeks on Poole’s Land. Continue reading “Moving up in the gene Poole”