Luck\u2019s a funny thing.\u00a0 Some folks don\u2019t much believe in it \u2013 or don\u2019t want to \u2013 since they think they\u2019re the Captains of their own Destiny.\u00a0 Me, I\u2019m easily seasick on the storm tossed waters of my life \u2026 so I put more faith in luck than my own crummy navigational skills.\u00a0 I guess living on the South End had a lot to do with it.\u00a0 You find yourself on an island on the edge of a continent, you think it\u2019s a short walk before the next move is a wet one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
I came when no one had heard of Camano, few people lived here and most of the cheap land was far down at the south end where I stumbled in one dark and stormy night.\u00a0 Luck had pretty much run out, jobs were scarce and a bad marriage had foundered on the rocks thanks to the aforementioned maritime skills.
\nI bought a shack and 7 acres for the princely sum of $25,000, everything I had down, $225 a month for the next 15 years.\u00a0 Sound cheap?\u00a0 Well, I had a hard time meeting that mortgage the first few years.\u00a0 But a funny thing happened on the way to the poorhouse.\u00a0 Corny as an A.M. radio pop song, I fell in love, got married to my old sweetheart and fell in love too with my place, the South End and my life.\u00a0 Lucky?\u00a0 You bet!!<\/p>\n
We take forks in the road all the time.\u00a0 I know buddies who always wonder where the other road would\u2019ve take them.\u00a0 I don\u2019t look back.\u00a0 I don\u2019t use the rearview mirror because it takes all my attention to drive the road I took, the one with the NEXT fork and the unexpected curve.\u00a0 You ask me — and I know you didn\u2019t —luck is part being ready for it.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a lottery ticket, it\u2019s that small opening, that slim opportunity, that sudden chance that may not come twice, the one that veers up out of the headlights and offers, for those who are ready for it, a new game, a fresh start,\u00a0 a brand new road.\u00a0 Luck, I\u2019ll admit this: it does take some skill.<\/p>\n
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Luck\u2019s a funny thing.\u00a0 Some folks don\u2019t much believe in it \u2013 or don\u2019t want to \u2013 since they think they\u2019re the Captains of their own Destiny.\u00a0 Me, I\u2019m easily seasick on the storm tossed waters of my life \u2026 so I put more faith in luck than my own crummy navigational skills.\u00a0 I guess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[7269,5604,7268],"class_list":["post-19028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantings-and-ravings","tag-captains-of-our-destiny","tag-dont-look-back","tag-luck-of-the-draw"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19031,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions\/19031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}