"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child."
— Arnaud Desjardins
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines! Sail away from the safe harbor!
Catch the trade winds in your sails! Explore! Dream!"
~ Mark Twain
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back
may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that
Lucille Clifton
blessing the boats
(at St. Mary's)
