[Rhodes22-list] It's national rum month.

[Charles Nieman]

Lynn
 
That is beautiful ... brought a tear to my eye....
 
I don't know what you do or did for a living, but if not writting, you should consider it
 
Thanks
 
Charles
 

> From: drfood55 at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:10:37 -0400
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] It's national rum month.
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> Major Jones is Satisfied
> 
> 
> In case you missed the 70‘s, a Jones is a yearning. So let’s talk
> yearnings. I’m not going to ask you yours and I’m not telling you most of
> mine, because then we’d have to lie. You’d have to say something about
> Mahler and I’d have to respond with Adriâ. Pish and Tosh. What I want to do
> is take a risk and tell you about my major jones, no make that Major Jones.
> 
> 
> My Major Jones goes back to 1983. I crossed the Atlantic Ocean as crew in a
> 92 foot, steel-hulled wishbone ketch named Sintra. Life-altering blah blah
> blah, but there were two effects of that trade-winds cause. One was that I
> will forever be in love with everybody who made that crossing with me. The
> other is that I have wanted sailing ever since. Yes, wanted to move across
> water powered by wind. Waves, breeze, smell, difficulty, craft, strategy.
> Elementary.
> 
> 
> I’ve owned a couple of sailboats since then, one of them so beautiful that
> I could cry about it, but neither of them addressed, much less satisfied
> Major Jones. What the Major wants is a boat on which a man could sail out
> on big water, go to sleep and then wake up and sail some more. The Major
> wants a boat that feels just a little bit like home, that smells a little
> bit like adventure, that shrinks the world and blows it wide open at the
> same time. A boat where you plot your course, cook your dinner, drop your
> anchor and pick it up again. The Major wants to be able to go to the boat
> any time, to sail in the rain or eat a cheese sandwich in the cockpit and
> not leave the dock on the prettiest day of the year.
> 
> 
> Now, like every other unresolved human being, I’ve got a Jones family.
> Fortunately, it’s a family that shrinks every year. Most of my Joneses now
> are about accomplishments or wishes for some certain younger souls who-i
> assume- have Joneses of their own. I don’t care much where I live, hardly
> want any thing or accolade. But the one persistent, monster, Kick-ass,
> Grandfather Jones is the one about the sailboat.
> 
> ••
> 
> 
> So here she is. A Rhodes22, red-hulled, white-sailed, carefully designed
> and reworked by a genius named Stan Spitzer to be sailed single-handed by
> an jonesing old man on medium-sized water in light to semi heavy air.
> 
> 
> I met her last weekend in North Carolina and we had a couple of sails on
> the Albemarle Sound behind Cape Hatteras. She’ll be delivered by trailer up
> to the Jersey Shore next week. What’s it like to have Major Jones
> satisfied? It doesn’t look like any of those Olympic gold-medal winner
> ecstasy fests. In fact, it’s not ecstatic at all.
> 
> 
> The feeling is more like coming home after a long trip. It doesn’t make you
> want a new Jones to pursue, it doesn’t make you want to promote Major Jones
> to Colonel and go for a bigger and faster boat. It makes you feel that
> rarest of modern feelings: satisfied.
> 
> Oh yum, savor it-satisfaction-not ‘closure’ or any feeling that diminishes
> someone else, feel free to smack your lips and throw a twenty in the
> collection plate the next time it comes your way.
> 
> 
> The best thing is that having one Major Jones satisfied, makes you inclined
> to see the rest of your personal Jones family in a different light: a
> slanted, low-angled, orangey light reflected off brackish water filled with
> life. Sometimes, the Major says, enough is enough and if the Major is
> satisfied, maybe you should be too.
> 
> 
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