Mermaids. NO MERMAIDS

 Sad news. I am going to give up sailing. Or can one believe NOAA? They are rarely precise in their predictions. Science is going haywire. There is a boson. But no Atlantis. No mermaids. Just winds....
And they announce this on the 4th of July.

Teenage dream on Facebook.

I started a Facebook account to be able to access my club. Rejected first request to befriend.  Don't want friends. But second request was from a woman in Romania, a hairdresser?! Of course a woman I did not know, but this seemed such an unusual request that I accepted.  Have not accepted any other request since.
As I was telling this story to a group of people (of course excusing myself for not accepting..) I remembered that in fact my dream in my teenage years was to have a girlfriend who was a hairdresser or manicurist.  Well, at my age now I can have hairdresser  girlfriend only on Facebook. And of course would not accept any other friend to share our intimate circle.
Why was I dreaming of a hairdresser. Why not a blond, or a tall, or anything else? I believed then as I do now that hair dressers know all there is to know about life. (It was dream to understand life...HA!)  And they have these perfumed hands....

sailing on summer solstice

Don't remember the name of this book I read many years ago, but I remember the hero, a Chinese poet,  celebrating solstice by drinking and reading poems to the setting sun. Impressed me and since I have been trying to pay my respects to the sun on solstice day.  This year decided to sail. Splendid. Booked a sailboat for today. Turns out the solstice was yesterday.