You are standing on a shore...somewhere. A ship before you spreads her white sails and starts for the blue ocean. She is a beautiful and strong ship and you watch her until she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come down to mingle.
Then a sad voice at your side says, "There...well, well. She is gone."
Gone where? From your sight - that's all. She is just as large in mast and spar as when she left your shore, just as strong and able. Her diminished size is in you, not in her, and while someone at your side is saying, "She's gone..." there are other eyes watching her approach from the horizon. Eyes that are ready to take up the glad shout, "Let the adventure begin, for here she comes."
--Ernest K. Gann
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What a great quote and such great perspective. It's so easy to think out of sight; out of mind (or gone forever). But we know that's not really true.
I hope you are doing well.
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