When you sail or cruise you are for the most part in your own environment. Your boat is your home and this bubble you live in moves from one environment to another with the comfort of familiarity and safety. If your environment feels threatened by another more powerful environment, like climate i.e., a hurricane, or political environment, economic environment etc. you sail away into the sunrise. Sometimes you are moved to act bursting your safety bubble because it is the right thing to do. Besides if you really want safe stay on your couch. I was vaguely aware of how my presence on a big, shinny, highly valued yacht flying an American flag (a certain privilege except in countries suspicious of America) in a small harbor in a foreign port would affect the port and me. Here is a story about how all the environments exploded like so many bubbles in a bubble bath leaving me nearly jailed and my boat stolen. Life is fleeting and you must seize the moment. I had experienced the tumultuous environments of war as the point of the spear but never from the perspective of a bystander watching the river of damage that follows out of war. I found I wasn’t immune despite all my privilege.
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