Everything is calm at Seven Seas

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Aug 6th 2005, 12:03pm By queenseyes

Dateline: Buffalo, NY Time: sunrise, Saturday morning Weather: beautiful, little humidity and a fine breeze Mood: let's summer!

Looking at the skies this morning, I told my dog Lilly... "If Einstein were still around, he'd go sailing today." Such streams of gold and blue imbuing an August morn...robust with days yearn to stretch to an endless horizon...grab a coffee and kick in the day!

Albert Einstein liked many things, from sailing, to the strumming sounds of violin, and then certainly physics. He alluded his strong desire for sailing to the time he was a lad, referring to sailing as a way of entering a special thought stream, saying: iDreaming was central to my lifelong work, from my vision at sixteen of riding a beam of light.i And he sailed well into his spaniel eyed-old age.

He also liked barter, his preferential means of economic exchange, and said: "If I had my life over to live, I'd prefer to have been a trader of goods; for I think barter is a noble thing." That line strikes me high, for trading is in my appetite, galore. Figure if you're sailing in a long journey, trade might come handy.

So then, what exactly is E= mc 2???

Let's explain. "Everything equals my calm, squared." That's, essentially, sailing.

And that would be a grand reason to come to Seven Seas today. And YOU are most welcome.

.... Speaking of violins...watch for future Fridays, at dockside, when we launch our fleet sunset sail... the Community Music School has some treats at dockside for us as we embark our sunset journeys. Some high notes ahead.

Happy trails on vibrant waves, and seagull skies,

Bill Zimmerman @ Seven Seas Sailing School

FYI: The Buffalo Convention and Visitors Bureau reports that over 33,000 people visit WNY every summer solely to see our world renowned population of seagulls, one of the most vast varietals of a collections of species in the world. Who'd have thunk?

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