We have had Seattle Singles Yacht Club overnights at Bell Harbor in downtown Seattle and at Blake Island. Over Presidents' Weekend we had a "gang" at Stevens Pass skiing while staying at my son's "cabin".
Upcoming will be the Meydenbauer Yacht Club Sail Regatta on March 29-30, with Whisper competing; whale watching in Langley off of Whidbey Island on April 4-6; Tacoma Yacht Club Daffodil overnight in April; Seattle Yacht Club Opening Day on May 3rd, with Whisper defending her First Place in Dressed Sail from last year; 
AND we will have 3 boats in Croatia, sailing the Adriatic for two weeks from Kremik to Dubrovnik. All of that and Spring only begins tonight.For over 40 years I have had a hero in Richard Bach's character, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Jonathan was unique among the flock in that while seagulls fly in order to eat, Jonathan ate in order to fly. It's all about means & ends, folks.
Today I have added another hero to my Pantheon: The Catskill Eagle. After a walking stop at the SPL-Fremont Branch where I picked out four books (yeah, I read a lot), I found him. In a book by that name, author Robert B. Parker, of the Spenser novels quotes Herman Melville from Moby Dick in his foreword:
And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.
While I think he may already be there, I invite this same eagle to take up residence in my soul.
Thank you Robert B. Parker, Herman Melville and Walter...
Keep on soaring,
Joe
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