{"id":3178,"date":"2020-08-25T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2020-08-25T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T22:09:51","slug":"owning-our-own-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"Owning our own time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

Just now on channel 16\u00a0 <\/span>a man said, \u201cWhite sailboat with blue stripe near the entrance to Roche Harbor, you are approaching a pod of orca. Stop your boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

After about 20 seconds, a woman came on the radio and said, \u201cThank you for the alert. Our engines are off.\u201d Or something similar. It\u2019s nice hearing sailors (power or sail) sharing respect for these truly magical creatures.<\/p>\n

Since I left the entrance to Roche Harbor about four hours ago, I was disappointed not to have been there to see the orca. But I\u2019ve seen them up close in Alaska and will treasure that memory until I create another.<\/p>\n

Arrived in Blind Bay about noon or so, I really don\u2019t keep track of time when on the boat. Okay, I don\u2019t really keep track of time at all, anymore. There\u2019s a certain timelessness at this age I didn\u2019t have for most of my life. I was born impatient. Glad I\u2019ve mostly recovered.<\/p>\n

Jimmy told me once, when we were on his boat in Panama, that one of the things he treasured most about cruising with Leslee on their boat was that \u201cI own my own time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Incredibly able and creative, he may have been the only person I ever knew who was born even more impatient than me. He hid it better though, behind a habit of being just a little late for whatever was most important on his schedule. I named\u00a0 <\/span>the inevitable chaos that resulted after them, which I don\u2019t think he appreciated partly because it was so spot on.<\/p>\n

Leslee said we were brothers of different mothers. I miss him every day. There\u2019s a certain timelessness to that, too.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no reason to put down the crab pot. The season won\u2019t open again until Thursday, when I\u2019ll be back in the truck heading south to Oregon, to tasks and paperwork, clocks and calendars, and smoke from forest fires.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should drop the dinghy back into the water regardless, but I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ll need to go anywhere. That depends on what Karen and Joe want to do when they get here in their wonderful Swedish boat, Zephyr.<\/p>\n

I have fresh mussels and clams to steam up for appetizers. regardless. I hope they have butter. Maybe I should drop the dinghy and motor over to the tiny store at the ferry landing on Shaw Island. I could get a bottle of Talking Rain while I\u2019m there.<\/p>\n

Ah, I have to drop the dinghy in any case, it blocks the only easy way to get on board. As good as reason as any. Maybe I\u2019ll motor over to see that catamaran a couple hundred yards away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

Just now on channel 16\u00a0 a man said, \u201cWhite sailboat with blue stripe near the entrance to Roche Harbor, you are approaching a pod of orca. Stop your boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

After about 20 seconds, a woman came on the radio and said, \u201cThank you for the alert. Our engines are off.\u201d Or something similar. It\u2019s nice hearing sailors (power or sail) sharing respect \u2026 Read more\u2026 → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-my-window"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-Pg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}