Squalls

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225284253?secret_token=s-Tk1Bo” params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]“This was one of those rare moments in life where you must act or die and everything was therefore very simple—although the outcome remained unclear,” writes Kim Campbell. “If I lived, I knew that I could manage what followed. It was like a dare and a promise.”

Today, we bring you the story of Kim’s first sailing trip, of horizontal masts and lightning strikes and, in her words, a “kernel of confidence that bloomed over the years.”

You can find more of Kim’s writing at: http://blog.kimzyn.com/

 

Music: Drop of Water in the Ocean by Broke for Free    •    Past The Sun by The Cassettes    •    Cue Me by Chiwawa    •    Chain by Harmonica Lewinsky    •    (The tragic life and brutal death of) Seamus McSweeny by The Naxalites

Tracks provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, Free Music Archive and Amy Stolzenbach.