The Edge

"Of course you miss the outside world. Everyone who ever sailed singlehanded or explored the jungles, or the tropics, or the desert, or the open cold of the polar regions, has missed the world and faced the grim reaper, laughed in his face and then, when they reenter this world, they are never quite the same. They understand things that they never saw, all of their lives, sitting on the bench beside them. Take this from someone who has sailed out on the horizon, alone at night, a hundred miles out, with the monsters, and the angels, and the solitude, and the loneliness:

You are, where you are. You are very fortunate to be there. Enjoy and savour every minute of it.

This is life.
This is the edge.
The edge is everything."

~ Jerri Nielsen (Ice Bound)Read more