I was doing my weather-girl thing this evening, checking out the weather systems in Florida and points south and east. From there, I started clicking other Wunderground links and ended up on this page about the Northwest Passage opening up. That article links to David Thoreson's blog post about sailing the passage on Cloud Nine, a privately owned sailboat that does regular circumnavigations and which has been crewed a couple of times by my first stepmother and dear friend, Cherie.
Attentive readers will recall that I previously mentioned David in this post. And I have pictures from my visit to Cherie's place in May of 2007 here.
All of this brings to mind this news article I read just today. A recent study of instant messaging patterns across the world indicates that the "six degrees of separation" thing is dead on.
It really is a small world.
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Ah, this reminds me of one of my favorite folk singers, Stan Rogers, and his song "Northwest Passage" (lyrics here: http://tinyurl.com/6osv2v).
We used to sing this (and many others) from the songbook "Rise Up Singing" at our Singing Days in Vancouver, once upon a time. Some glorious harmonies!
I think about the polar bears when I think about a Northwest Passage opening up. I wonder how long it will be before they are extinct....
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