Posts tagged sailboat
Our Wrecked Electric Sailboat

et’s get the obvious out of the way, this sucked. I can’t quite think of a more elegant way to put that other than, it sucked. If you were hoping that I, Jake, would write words that were a bit more Shakespearean, I apologize for my one dollar word. My thirtieth birthday went off with a bang, literally, as our keel ran into some rocks.

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I Sweat Now, for a Good Reason

My life has been spent with my head in a book. Words and myself are rather well acquainted, perhaps even friends. I never fancied myself the type to do physical labor; quite frankly, I didn’t think I was built for it. Art, education, and anything that worked the muscle in my skull was more my speed, until recently. For the first time in my life, physical labor was something I was getting up in the morning to do.

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