Basta!!!

We have a favorite Italian word, "Basta". It means "Enough" with an exclamation point! And it was a few weeks ago that we found ourselves saying "Basta!". Enough of port, enough of people, enough of busyness, enough of projects, just.....enough.
We have been in our favorite port in Palma, Mallorca getting a good amount of work done on EcstaSea. Such as rigging surveys, engine room clean-up, new awning quotes, outboard motor tune-ups, etc, etc. All good and needed but sure puts us into the world of time-bound tick-tock. It engages us with many people and schedules and a "to-do" list.

Interesting, isn't it that we are called human "beings" and not human "doers", since we get so caught up in the "doing" of things. Well, anyway.....Basta!!!
So we set out to some of our favorite coves on the southern coast of Mallorca and here we have been "being".

When we are anchored out, there is NO nothing: no time, no schedule, no routine. Only whatever we want whenever we want it. We sleep, eat, play, work, swim, watch the waves lap on the side of the boat -- all free of tick-tock. This is the ultimate gift of "timelessness" that living on EcstaSea on the ocean gives to us, and we are ever thankful. "Timeless" is really only "nowness" and everyone has experienced this at one time or another, usually at peak experiences. For us, we wish and intend to live more from this spaciousness of the timeless, whether we are floating free or tied to a dock.

Richard enjoying kiwi, cherry pie for dinner, prepared by Chef Willow (who says she can't cook?).

Okay, so what if it is July 8th before the water is warm enough for the Captain to go swimming?

Now if this isn't timeless beauty, we don't know what is.....

So now it is time to go back to port for more projects and work to be done. Can we "do" it from the spacious timelessness that we so love and experience when we are at anchor? Our challenge and intention is to explore the timelessness that is before, beyond and in tick tock--whether it be tied to a dock or anchored out, working or retired, awake or sleeping. To allow the "timeless now" to "be" within everything and everywhere in our lives. We believe that timelessness is a state of "being", and not related to the absence of a clock to tell us when to "do " something. So this is our challenge, our practice and our intention--we continue the exploration in the timeless now.
Here we go.....