If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.