by wg | Jul 2, 2025 | Notes
Sunrise over a yacht in a tiny cove. Francis’ paintings brought to life. Whiff of goats over a cup of tea, as they clamber the rocky slopes and pebble-beach shore. An easy departure. A creased, folded, and eventually stuck mainsail. Anchoring off Poros beach....
by wg | Jul 1, 2025 | Notes
Wake surrounded by massive catamarans. So much wealth in this bay. Hard to believe that we live in a world filled with wicked probems. Hot tea. Route planning. Ithaca to Cephalonia. Still. Windless. But cool. Wasps are back. Seeking sweet water in my hair, on my feet,...
by Suzanne Whitby | Apr 30, 2024 | Hopeful, sustainable futures, Notes
Thought-provoking. Evidently, children must be protected from stories about wolves in fairy tale forests (that may have been used to warn young women in factories to be wary of wolf-ish men). Obviously, no need to worry about guns. The text below the two girls says,...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 18, 2024 | Notes
Don’t be a dick. In my on-going business development experiments, I do a lot of emailing. Whilst I was putting my email together this morning, I wanted to write, “Bottom line? You don’t want to be a dick.” I didn’t write it. It would...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 16, 2024 | Nature, Notes
The legacy of the A23a iceberg I’ve never thought of icebergs as having a destiny before, but this paragraph has made me think differently: “Their destiny is to fragment and wither to nothing. Their legacy is the ocean life they seed by dropping entrained...
by Suzanne Whitby | Dec 27, 2023 | Notes
To comma or not to comma, that is the question In creating the “hopeful, sustainable futures” project, I was struck by a moment of uncertainty. Although I always separate hopeful and sustainable with a comma (this is a phrase I use a great deal in my...
