Using water for reflection

Hi, this is Adrienne and this is my public journal.

When I was a kid, I had a diary with lock and key. I would write in it every with very spotty consistency. Each diary entry was titled with the date and the details of that days activities.

I don’t recall every filling a journal from start to finish. So when I see some Hollywood movies where someone is about to move across the country and they go up in the attic to find a dusty box full of complete journals I feel both disappointed in myself for not keeping that and a simultaneous desire to call “bull shit.”

As I’ve lived, I’ve received a lot of journals. Most of them have been filled with to-do lists, brainstorms and ideas. They aren’t filled with feelings and I would venture to guess that only two of the 20 or so journals I have are actually filled with words.

I haven’t explored my writing in a typical handwritten journal. I tried to do this for the last few weeks leading up to our departure and it ended as soon as I got busy with boat preparation in the bay area. I didn’t journal while out at sea either. I wanted to spend that time sleeping, not to mention that writing was quite tricky in a very rocky little cabin.

Instead of capturing my feelings day by day in a journal, I vlogged on go pros, on my iphone camera, talking with my teammates or I quietly sat with them while staring at the waves, rowing towards our destination for 2 hours at a time.

I experienced deep feels from the moment I got wind of this adventure on September 24, 2021.

Since saying yes, I have felt more awareness of my inner world than I ever did in the thousands of hours I’ve spent at yoga trainings.

I’ve always loved to write and create. I’ve always done it for someone else…and that has gotten me really far in life. I

I said yes to this ocean crossing for me. I continued to say yes to this crossing each day for my team and for my expansion. Like life, the path is not linear and these posts won’t be in any particular order.

Water is powerful, cleansing, transformative and in our case, so deep. This blog holds excerpts from my life, my ocean crossing and the crossing over into something new and uncertain.

Those of you who know me know that I process a lot and I only go deep.