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Three Queens, one magnificent city- This  Sunday, May 3rd, The Cunard fleet are ALL back from their World Cruises. This gathering of Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria at Cunard’s home port for almost 100 years- QM2 will take center stage in the celebration. Exactly 175 years ago Britannia left British waters bound for America. Since then ,The Queen Mary 2 currently remains the ONLY  regularly scheduled ocean liner on the high seas that makes the transatlantic crossing- AND  is dubbed  the shortest bridge between New York and Europe. Working Onboard the QM2 was awesome! The QM2 allows dogs onboard-cute! QM2 Last July in Hamburg This photo pretty much sums up the crowds enthusiastic response as the flagship sails away down The Elbe River to open waters in the North This was last July, In Hamburg, for the 10th Anniversary of QM2 in Germany. New York Harbor Vintage

You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in  fields of gold All You Need Is Sting This English countryside reminds me of his 1993 hit; and the most amazing song I ever heard- Fields Of Gold - of enduring love and neither time nor death can change that. You'll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley.. .. Roll Video...

Every time I walk into this port town, HMS Warrior- the first armor-plated, iron-hulled warship(1859) is right in the harbor standing tall and proud, a constant reminder of the age of naval dominance and the legacy  of  empire and seapower.  It  is in the misty salt water air too. Smells like Victory, Admiral Horatio Nelson's  namesake ship docked at  Portsmouth Historic Dockyard-the Royal Navy's most famous warship,  hard to believe that you can fit 800 sailors on deck. And here are some working boats back from a run on the open water Shot this image, "Just For The Hull of It!".

Running On the chalk headlands in Southern England, in November. England has such amazing Coastline. The Other side of the cliff- You could easily loose your footing, and the talc erodes constantly with rainfall.

Visiting Arundel Castle, AGAIN!  It's never too late to have a good  childhood imagination, with Rapunzel's long blond hair flowing from one of Arundel's towers down to her love..I can hear the blacksmiths making weapons, and the townspeople cheering the knights jousting. The Grass is Greener where the water is! Windows 2015

The cloistered/monastic life- Every day, monks had to go out of their mind in order to come to their senses; time millionaires who choose to "spend" this commodity in contemplation-That's an adventure---the joy in the freedom of having nothing but being everything-To live in this vastness is to bathe in the ocean that mystics call one taste . Coming into a cathedral, whether it is St Pat's or here in England at Chichester--slows down time, and you can reflect-It's about optimism, love and hope and it inspires all of us to creatively dream, imagine and enjoy what is. Marc Chagall . Dear Abbey

At The Epicenter of Catholicism, St Pat's. to pay my respects.  The doors to St. Patrick’s Cathedral swept open in 1879 and since then the gothic-style Church has seen its share of renovation. The Basilica, today, Under  Another Construction- is a bit less pious, but the Landmark prevails. I haven't visited here since January 2013: We made the trip to Manhattan for my Mother's funeral at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. She didn't want a big service but we chose the largest decorated gothic-style Catholic Cathedral in the United States, recognized throughout its history as the  center of American  Catholic life, because we loved her so much. A Few Good Reifs'  .The accumulation of birthdays is the leading cause of death in the USA, although she lived only 84 years, she had a great run. The last time the whole family got together at The Cathedral was at my  Dad's Service . RIP Mom-And Dad. When ...

One day my life will flash before my eyes. I am making sure it’s worth watching. My life hasn't gotten better by chance; it’s gotten better by change. By changing nothing, nothing changes. When in doubt, I always have chosen change. All these changes, however, were preceded by chaos, and the bridges I burned, have lit the way.Yet, at what point is choice--the watermark  of individual freedom and self-determination that we so cherish--becomes a point of diminishing returns, a "problem" instead of a solution---That is the paradox of choice. There is no YES, in yesterday, and when you are sailing, you are what you are right there and then.  My  bizarre travel plans have been dancing lessons from God. As soon as anyone starts telling me to be realistic, I cross that person off my  invitation list. We are still friendly but no longer friends because they don’t get  IT that if you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space. There is wis...

Sailing Into NYC Harbor at the mouth of the Hudson River, was Spectacular---  I remember it a lot more than my uneventful return today by ordinary means....Our smokestack just cleared the Verranzano Narrows Bridge by a few feet! After six sea days at sea, it was great to see first land, on this special July crossing of The Atlantic with Sarah E Kennedy On Cunard's Queen Mary 2 Oceanliner.