177: Another First Day on the Water
From: World Ocean Radio
Series: World Ocean Radio: The Sea Connects All Things
Length: 05:27
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Life's firsts set the standard for our experience and help to define the things that we value and determine what we wish to conserve and sustain. Many of us across the globe have opportunities to derive reward, solace and peace from the ocean: a first sail of the season aboard a small boat, visiting a crowded beach, pilgrims submersed in a sacred river--the ocean provides a source of renewal, quiet reward and communion with Nature. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss his concept of Hydraulic Society and how, if we can understand the direct relationship of the ocean to our most basic requirements for successful living, understanding has the power to help us protect, preserve and value a new water-directed way of living.
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Piece Description
Life's firsts set the standard for our experience and help to define the things that we value and determine what we wish to conserve and sustain. Many of us across the globe have opportunities to derive reward, solace and peace from the ocean: a first sail of the season aboard a small boat, visiting a crowded beach, pilgrims submersed in a sacred river--the ocean provides a source of renewal, quiet reward and communion with Nature. In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will discuss his concept of Hydraulic Society and how, if we can understand the direct relationship of the ocean to our most basic requirements for successful living, understanding has the power to help us protect, preserve and value a new water-directed way of living.
Broadcast History
WERU 89.9 FM, Blue Hill, ME; California Academy of Sciences/Steinhart Aquarium; KSER-FM, Everett, WA; Erie Maritime Museum, Mystic Seaport, Maine Boats Homes & Harbors; 3CR Melbourne: Out of the Blue; thew2o.net/world-ocean-radio.
Transcript
I write and record these broadcasts from World Ocean Radio’s home, in Maine, in the northeastern corner of the United States, on the shore of Penobscot Bay, a vast inward curve of the Atlantic with many wonderful, mostly unsettled islands that provide a nurturing scape for lobster and scallops, for incubating ground and shell fish, for coastal settlements and marine trades, and for voyagers in small boats who find shelter in the lee of these very beautiful granite, forested remnants of glacial movement and maritime weather.
Yesterday my wife and I had another first day on the water, this year’s first glorious afternoon of sunshine, perfect wind, modest wave, and the sense of prospect and anticipation that characterizes the outset of many things that we enjoy. A first sip of beer. A first taste of a favorite dish. A first glimpse across a crowded room of someone to be loved. Call me rom...
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Additional Credits
Peter Neill, Host; Trisha Badger, Associate Producer
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