We hoped to have her back in the water, to live aboard this summer while starting to build our new home. The water and fuel tank I've been writing about took a lot of extra work and time. That is now clean and clear, but before re-launch there are those other items still to complete.
Building on Vancouver Island will mean spending the summer there whether or not the Pearl is ready. We have been gifted with a friend's 18ft. motor home, so we'll still begin construction in the next few months, only not from the boat .
I'll be documenting that building and move through The Gift Economy since that blog has been about gratitude and abundance, and it is beyond generous that my friends give us their motor home.
Another of my blogs has been a meditation about the general economy
The world of investing and business, which I have loved, has been revealed as even more extensively fraudulent than most of us imagined.
It looks like the big changes predicted by Bernard Lietaer (in the book I am translating) "The Future of Money" are happening fast.
So John & I are off to begin creating a new home, a retirement project of sufficient magnitude to keep us living life, rather than resting. Meanwhile, I am going to be looking at us (and blogging about it) as a test case in the matter of the two coexisting economies- gift and transaction! The Global Abundance Alliance has just done a workshop in San Francisco which introduced me to more powerful ways of engaging with both.
The Black Pearl looks great and will be back in the water next summer.
