HeyJaredSPARRING WITH MOTHER NATURE | Janice Anne Wheeler
The stories I share are real; I don't have the imagination to write fiction. I don’t need to. I'm a Sailor.
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NO LOOKING BACK (opens the original)
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Writing from different oceans on opposite sides of the globe, two women sailors exchange letters about how we came to build our lives at sea, each aboard a very different sailing vessel. Opposite Latitudes, Parallel Attitudes explores what it takes to go all in on this life—and where those choices have carried us.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EysB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.c
VOLUNTARY SWEATSHOP (opens the original)
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If you prefer, you can listen to me read the story, right up there~There’s always something to be done. That’s life anywhere. Some of it can be put off, and some of it can’t. When one resides on a boat, any sort of boat, I believe, this boring dash of wisdom is even more relentless. Some days, I get stubborn; Virgo-esque, you might say, (there was more on that last week) and simply decide that I’m going to accomplish one of my bullet list items, regardless. Regardless of the odds against
KNOWING A VIRGO (opens the original)
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(If you’d rather listen, in my voice, please click the recording above.) Are Zodiac signs another fine example of SPARRING WITH MOTHER NATURE? Can we be categorized by birth month? My practical side says no, my spiritual side says maybe. Stars and the other occupiers of the Milky Way are the most natural of entities, after all. Humanity has been gazing upon them for as long as there has been humanity; we assigned names of ancient Pagan Gods while tracking paths, timing, and potential significanc
OPPOSITE LATITUDES PARALLEL ATTITUDES (opens the original)
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PART 3 - This is the third installment in a four-part pen pal exchange between Linda aboard Duende at Shellphone Chronicles and Janice Anne aboard Steadfast at Sparring with Mother Nature.Writing from different oceans on opposite sides of the globe, two women sailors exchange letters about how we came to build our lives at sea, each aboard a very different sailing vessel. Opposite Lat
ANTSY (opens the original)
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A few weeks ago, my eyes wandered above the tiny camera on the top of my Mac laptop, contemplating a polite inquiry, gazing at a glowing sunset. Not a real one, mind you, but captured, printed, hung on the bulkhead. It will always be my favorite, and that’s saying a lot because, let me assure you, I pay attention to the whole sunset, sunrise, moon phase, planetary conjunction, constellation thing. Mother Nature’s sunrises and sunsets, sun and moon, stars and planets, are forever changing while r
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