Windpower

Switch off the mind and let the heart decide

who you were meant to be. 

Flick to remote and let the body glide. 

There is no enemy. 

Etch out a future of your own design

well-tailored to your needs.

Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive. 

Shatter the lens and grind it into sand. 

One measured exposure.

Scatter the seed and furrow in our land. 

The future is roses! Roses! 

-- Thomas Dolby (1982)

surf progression

The idea that you can improve never goes away....  Surfing's evolved.  The boards have evolved.  I'm actually stronger now, and I have more control over my technique.  But I have too many injuries.   It's super frustrating because there are some days I don't want to surf because I'm in pain.  But I still feel, at this age right now, my best surfing is still ahead of me. 

I grew up idolizing Tom Curren.  I wanted to surf like him.  I wanted to hold my arms like him.  Then at some point I realized I'm not Tom Curren.  I have a different approach.  I think differently.  And if you're trying to be someone else, you're not offering the world what you have.  
 
-- Kelly Slater (11x World Champion) 2017

wires and watchtowers

The murderous clouds can't keep the sun from shining
The wind of Jah will scatter them away
-- Eric Hilton / Rob Garza (Thievery Corp.) 2005

a change is gonna come

I keep on thinkin' it's wrong
So I'm chiding you in a song
It's comin' your way
You shouldn't feel this way

You think it's a sin
I ain't your color of skin
It's comin' your way
You shouldn't feel this way

I keep on losin' my feet
When I walk down the street
I keep on thinkin' it's you
Guess it makes me feel blue
You say it's broken your dreams
They fall apart at the seams
It's comin' our way

-- Adam Franklin (Swervedriver) 1993

blind faith

"I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens."
-- Britney Spears (2003)

life's what you make it

Life's what you make it -- celebrate it, anticipate it
Yesterday's faded, nothing can change it -- life's what you make it.

-- Mark Hollis (Talk Talk) 1985

tomorrow is a new day

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
You shall begin it serenely and
with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson