Ah, springtime...
Success! On Tuesday, the mast finally went back up on the Lucky Duck. That ended three tough months of working on the boat with a big honkin' mast in the way of everything. The mast is much longer than the boat, so it overhung both ends, had ropes & cables & wires strung around everywhere, making a huge mess. I was working on it in between winter storms and other things in life. Meanwhile, I just wanted to enjoy the boat! Well, it's finally done, and the sailing weather is now supreme. Best of all, I now trust the mast to stay aloft through anything I'll throw at it. Life is good!

So of course now today as I sit at home on our houseboat next door, I'm watching little birds consider making their nest in my mainsail on the boom. They'll figure out soon enough that it's a bad choice of residence. I'll be out on the Bay again within a few days. Still, it's sweet to watch birds starting to nest as Spring arrives.

Little by little, I'm finding a comfortable balance of work and pleasure in life. In addition to editing and writing for the Simple Living Network's Newsletter ( http://www.simpleliving.net/ ), I've been chosen to write a piece for Simple Living America's upcoming book: "GET SATISFIED: How Twenty People Like You Found the Satisfaction of Enough" (more at http://www.simplelivingamerica.org/ and http://www.getsatisfied.org/ ). Meanwhile, the New Roadmap Foundation ( http://www.newroadmap.org/ ) is being reinvigorated, which I'm very excited about. These are the folks who created "Your Money Or Your Life".

Activism, trail running, and sailing. It's a beautiful world!

Anyone wanna c'mon out for a day on the Bay? I'll stock the icebox.