James Finn
Jun 8, 2023

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You could also take a page from live-aboard sailors, who are badass community of gentle, caring people.

I've been binging YouTube videos made by a few families who have been documenting their lives sailing around the world.

In 50-some foot sailboats, they cross oceans, explore different cultures, and live as nomads, port to port. They have to be both amazingly self-sufficient and cooperate completely with the sailing community they're part of. The consequences of not doing both of those things could easily be death — for themselves and their children.

Don't maintain your house well? Make an ass of yourself with neighbors? The world doesn't end, though you might experience a good bit of discomfort.

But behave that way on a sailboat crossing the Pacific, and you might very well sink and die.

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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