Archive for December 8th, 2009
Sailing the Rolling Sea
Everyone dreams of something. Maybe of when they lived somewhere else that they loved. Maybe of their childhood days and the carefree life of childhood. Maybe of a job where everything goes right. Maybe of sailing on the open sea. That must have been where a ship in a bottle was invented. When you read books about long ago and the dangers and wonders of sailing the “bounding main,” you see sailors with time on their hands between voyages. Wouldn’t between voyages have been the perfect time for someone to come up with the idea of building a boat in a bottle? How intricate the pieces would have to be. And so much time would be involved in putting it all together. If you know the story of how this all started, you might want to share it. Maybe everyone except me does know. Oh well, I can contemplate the ship in the bottle and wonder. That is fun, too.