Castlehom Chronicles

On Marriage

On Marriage
Kahlil Gibran

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

On Children

And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."

And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Kahlil Gibran

"Star light, star bright, starboard is to the right."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starboard

A view of the starboard side of the MS Freedom of the Seas cruise ship

Starboard is the nautical term that refers to the right side of a vessel as perceived by a person on board facing the bow (front). The equivalent for the left-hand side is port. The starboard side of a vessel is indicated with a green navigation light at night.

Consider two ships on courses that intersect. The rule is that the ship on the left must give way. The stand on vessel sees the green light on the starboard (right) side of the ship on the left. The give way vessel sees the red light on the port side of the stand on vessel. The helmsman gives way to a red light by either turning away and showing a stern light (which is white), or by going around the stern of the stand on vessel.

This was likely the beginning of the convention for traffic lights that use red to mean stop and green to mean go.^{[citation needed]}

There are other rules governing which is a stand on vessel, such as small ships giving way to big ships, powered ships giving way to sailing ships, and in some circumstances vessels under sail giving way to powered vessels that are constrained by their draft, or restricted in their ability to maneuver. Therefore the green light does not mean an unqualified go, but rather it means proceed with caution subject to other rules applying. The earliest railway signals went red/green/white (as per the stern light) for stop/caution/go following this naval practice and were only later changed to the more familiar red/yellow/green.

The very simple application of red light and green light is that if the helmsman sees a red light, the helmsman should make sure that the other vessel can see his green light, which usually means giving way. If he sees a green light, he should stand on, but without getting into a collision situation.

The sailing rule that dictates that a sailing vessel on starboard tack is the stand on vessel is as old as any other regulation. Likewise, if on the same tack, a sailing vessel that is upwind of another is the give way vessel.

walk around SailingSurvivor

Fewer Boats here than last month.

You are looking at the Port side of my Morgan OutIslander.

She’s 36’ with the swim platform. Shoal draft ~ 4’.

See the Trinka Sailing Dingy forward on the deck.

I need an inflatable raft for back and forth to shore when on a mooring ball or anchored out.

Starboard side of SailingSurvivor.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starboard

No ZPG amongst we Larratts

Tara Larratt Mosher

Claire Lavone is here and she is just perfect!!!! Born at 4:15 a.m. Friday April 9th, 7 lb. 2 oz., 18". I am the luckiest mama!!!!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/tara.mosher?ref=ts

My mother was Lavone.  Tara is a daughter of my brother Larry.

thanX Tara for the “Lavone”

Lavone was “unconditional love”.

Cats in BattlePaint

I took these with my cellphone – I’ll post better pictures later – but no wonder cats catch so many birds – the black and white patterning makes them hard to see – till you see them – and then it might be too late if you are a small bird. 

Sure once you see her the black and white makes her stand out but it’s combat coloration – breaking the pattern recognition

!!!! CAT !!!!

BattleStar Galactica is the new Black

Last Supper