A Sargasso Day
Sails are up! Ready at the helm! Eyes on the horizon! Awaiting a breeze to encourage the journey ...
My Captain,
Sometimes - far from shore - we find ourselves adrift with no wind in our sails and, despite our best efforts, the winds of progress elude us.
While the sea around us appears calm - even dormant to the very edge of the horizon - inside ourselves we peer from the windows of our tiny souls and feel waves of despair that only those interminably confined to quarters might experience.
Yes, damn those sluggards! They who should be at their stations are sleepwalking. The sails sag heavily, lifeless, upon their riggings. The ship aimlessly and lazily pitches, yaws, rolls, and creaks with no perceptible forward movement.
Everyone has a Sargasso1 Day now and again.
Despite the appearance of a stalled journey, there are neither mysteries nor magic solutions. We sometimes sail into complacency rather than around it.
Time and gravity are constants. They are predictable but unreliable solutions.
Look deeper into the sea … it is deeper than Columbus and his crew feared so superstitiously.
Floating there within the doldrums2 we have not run aground nor are we in danger of doing so.
In the depths, there is always patience. And patience allows hope.
There is always the promise of winds - a future - yet to be discovered - even created.
There is always peace of mind, creativity, and joy that comes with the company of people who have kind hearts.
There is always the fuel of self-confidence. Lose confidence in the crew then the crew has some work to do.
Lose confidence in you … we are lost.
Fair winds and full sails are sure to come!
Lead like you mean it.
Adult like you mean it.
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