Done Surfing

Last night as I finished up some reading and was turning out the light, I had a bit of an epiphany that all this blog nonsense was just that - nonsense. I was going to make this my last blog post but I was talked out of it by my best friend. You see to me one of the problems today is the internet (yes, its a great tool) and all the opinion and simply meaningless drivel that is out there. Where is out there anyway and is this even real?

The internet has become a place for everyone to make up their own 15 minutes of fame - if not for the world at large at least for their circle of friends or those on an extended email list. The words on the all the blogs are just that - more talk.

Well, talk is cheap! The important thing is what we DO. We need to think about how we treat one another, how we behave in front of children, and what do we do to make our world a bit better. Any small step is good. A step is a start and it certainly is doing. It is so much easier to sit behind a desk and write things about what we should do. The bottom line is I know nothing of what anyone should except to just do and stop talking about.

Oh some say there is too much to do so I can't start anything. The problems we face globally are huge and so interrelated that it is sometimes difficult to see a clear path. So I think we just take one small step, get off the porch, pick up a piece of trash in front of you. Imagine if everyone picked up one piece of trash today the world would be way cleaner.

Put a brick in your toilet tank. If everyone put a brick in the tank do you realize how much clean water we would save? Some things are so simple but we get overwhelmed by thinking about the big picture. We don't need to be 100%. We can never be 100%. Just take one step down the path though and you are one step closer. So I am off to do something and rather than abandon this blog, I will try to use it in the most practical way I can and I want to celebrate the little steps.

As a lover of wooden boats I followed Wooden Boat Magazine. Its founder, Jon Wilson, went on to start another magazine called Hope. It was a great mag that celebrated all the little unknown victories of the spirit and of the heart around the world. As a commercial endeavor unfortunately the mag didn't make it. Its spirit does live on and I now hope I can share some of those positive stories that inspire me here in my blog.

Finally, as a surfer, I hate the term "surfing the web". Surfing only occurs in one place and that is in the beautiful ocean. Surfing doesn't happen in the parking lot. Clothing companies that sell to surfers are surf companies - they are clothing companies. Surfing doesn't happen on the sidewalk and it, for sure, isn't happening when your sitting in front of a computer. So go out and surf and if you don't surf, that's OK just get out and DO.