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Old 03-02-2010, 09:32 AM   #1507
Anchor
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Default Re: Thuban Q&A: (warning longer than normal posts here)

The big boat is at night resting near shore. It is full of newly shining lights, and strains at the anchor, put down near a safe cove. The heavy sisal rope creaks in the stronger gusts. A little crab sits happily exploring the anchor and listens to its moment.

Perhaps the boat wanted to move on to different waters? There were now many old captains of that boat adjusting to a new way, together, some heated talk, no chain of command, no hierarchy, but a team. Some captains gave commands the anchor didn’t like and he dug in hard – he was an old captain too on this boat! – But is he doing the right thing? Some of the old captains and young captains say he is some say he isn’t. What to do? Stay or go? Is it right to stop it moving – what is the proper way to go? Is it nice where we are going to go?

The anchor liked the sea where he was, he liked the boat, he loved the warm energies that had recently played in the sea and above and it had made some lights on the boat shine especially brightly. The anchor sees a storm is coming, and he really knows it is time for all to go to new waters; perhaps he has held the boat for too long – is it too late? No, it is time to go! It is time to let the boat run freely – even in stormier waters.

The anchor rises up fast into the night, pulled in safely at the side of the big boat, to be along with those beautiful shining lights – how bright they are from here, not ephemeral wisps and sparkles remembered from under the darker water. How much like the stars they all are from down there. The great hemp sails flutter and catch a puff, the moon smiles its gibbous blessing.

The big boat, together with its many bright beacons are free to ride the waves into the dark, to shine light, to go where nature’s breath takes them.

The little crab, which had jumped off as the anchor had started to rise up, happily scuttles away into the sand again.

Last edited by Anchor; 03-02-2010 at 10:02 AM.
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