Tall tales and other thoughts from storyteller, sailor and nomad Dennison Berwick. "Kuan Yin" is his 32-foot go-anywhere home.
Posted in Reportage/Stories, Sailing on Mar 5th, 2010
I wrote recently about the amazing amount of our plastics now floating about in the oceans. A new story by Victoria Gill of the BBC highlights the situation in the North Atlantic where researchers have found a massive garbage zone. The maximum density of plastic trash was 200,000 pieces per square kilometre!
The tiny pieces are [...]
Posted in Books/Language, Reportage/Stories on Feb 3rd, 2010
Those who argue that economic exploitation of natural “resources” can go on for ever because it always has gone on, should read Mark Kurlansky’s book “Cod, A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World”. The book is not primarily about the collapse of stocks in the early 1990s but rather a fascinating investigation of [...]
Posted in Reportage/Stories on Jan 24th, 2010
Everywhere we go these days there are plastic bags, bottles and other trash. Even walking up to the source of the river Ganges, the holy river of India, that high in the Himalayas in 2008 I gathered kilos of garbage dropped by pilgrims eager for the blessings of Mother Ganges but content to throw unwanted [...]
"Serendipity" is the art of finding something valuable or delightful when you're not looking for it. It's how you might also define living life as an adventure - which is something I seek to do everyday - and accepting whatever happens.
