Elmer's Brother

Heartsick - Yearning

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1. from Wikipedia:
   
   Jung's unique and broadly influential approach to psychology has emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams

   Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/10 @ 02:12 PM — (Reply)

2. fyi - I'm a just a bit pensive....missing the Navy

   Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/10 @ 05:00 PM — (Reply)

3. well I sure don't miss petty officer of the watch, sea and anchor duty, and don't forget "reville revellie reville, all hands heave out and trice up, smoking lamp is lit in all authorized spaces".....but I did have a blast in PI, and thailand.........(piping an all hands)....riff .....departing....lol....

   Comment by riffran— 2008/01/10 @ 05:26 PM — (Reply)

4. i love the blue angels - that is art.
   
   o.t. - did you watch the debates this evening? john mccain and EVEN ron paul did very well i believe - of course they dwell on the frontrunners, as usual.

   Comment by nanc— 2008/01/10 @ 05:54 PM — (Reply)

5. nanc I did watch the debate...it was interesting
   
   riff - sometimes I even miss that stuff
   
   Joe, Brooke, Jean - they are something to see
   
   

   Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/12 @ 10:35 AM — (Reply)

6. I think my man Fred Thompson did a fantastic job.
   
   BG
   
   

   Comment by Barry G.— 2008/01/12 @ 10:43 AM — (Reply)

7. Barry...it may be a case of too little...too late for Fred

   Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/12 @ 10:47 AM — (Reply)

8. I could watch the Blue Angels all day

   Comment by Joe Gringo— 2008/01/11 @ 07:57 AM — (Reply)

9. Completely awesome!

   Comment by Brooke— 2008/01/11 @ 09:49 AM — (Reply)

10. Having been a bit of a tomboy i liked that.

    Comment by Jean-sweet pea— 2008/01/12 @ 01:06 AM — (Reply)

11. My favorite precision flying team! Back before the F-4's(?) and F/A-18's

    Comment by Farmer John— 2008/01/12 @ 10:03 AM — (Reply)

12. I think it's a callin' FJ

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/12 @ 10:33 AM — (Reply)

13. when I was a recruiter we used a video similar to this with the same Van Halen song

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/12 @ 10:36 AM — (Reply)

14. It certainly is one of those, elbro. But the pay sucks, so for the Mrs. sake, better hang up!

    Comment by Farmer John— 2008/01/12 @ 01:11 PM — (Reply)

15. I guess fj you could say that I miss my calling - I liked my job more than I disliked it...it's not easy to find another calling

    Comment by elmers brother— 2008/01/12 @ 07:47 PM — (Reply)

16. Well maybe you need to find a way of pursuing it that's more compatible with your responsibilities. I learned more about the US Navy and its' capabilities working for a defense contractor than I ever knew while I was in the Reserves. And if I ever got "called up", I'd be a tend times more qualified now then I was then. I learned both what my systems could do AND what theirs were capable of. It was almost like eight years at the Naval Postgraduate School.

    Comment by Farmer John— 2008/01/13 @ 09:15 AM — (Reply)

17. I wish I could. I started out with a contractor when I first retired...doing the same job I had in the Navy as a Field Engineer and consultant.
    
    I worked in one state and commuted to my family in another on the weekends. I resigned because I hadn't retired so that I could be away again.
    
    but I still have the yearning and the calling
    
    
    On the Sea
    by John Keats
    
    It keeps eternal whisperings around
    Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell
    Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell
    Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.
    Often 'tis in such gentle temper found,
    That scarcely will the very smallest shell
    Be moved for days from whence it sometime fell,
    When last the winds of heaven were unbound.
    Oh ye! who have your eye-balls vexed and tired,
    Feast them upon the wideness of the Sea;
    Oh ye! whose ears are dinned with uproar rude,
    Or fed too much with cloying melody, -
    Sit ye near some old cavern's mouth, and brood
    Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs choired!
    
    
    
    

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/13 @ 02:30 PM — (Reply)

18. Do you play golf EB?
    

    Comment by Ernie Els— 2008/01/13 @ 02:35 PM — (Reply)

19. I wouldn't call it that....and I gave my clubs away.

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/13 @ 03:10 PM — (Reply)

20. For God's sake man....get some new ones !!
    
    

    Comment by Ernie Els— 2008/01/13 @ 03:54 PM — (Reply)

21. then I'd be golfing when I should be sailing

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/13 @ 04:21 PM — (Reply)

22. Small catamarans are wicked good fun! Even an engineer can sail 'em!

    Comment by Farmer John— 2008/01/14 @ 04:49 AM — (Reply)

23. I'd need lots of practice...and I lack tack (sic)

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/14 @ 04:56 AM — (Reply)

24. My wife and I are qualifified on 17' O'days...unfortunately the desert doesn't have many places to sail

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/14 @ 04:51 AM — (Reply)

25. Rentals beat owning, unless you plan on a daily cure.

    Comment by Farmer John— 2008/01/14 @ 04:52 AM — (Reply)

26. we used to rent on base...if I were to sail on the ocean it would be a 6 hour trip....so yeah I think I'd rent
    
    at one time we thought about at retirement finding a live aboard...now that would be grand

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2008/01/14 @ 04:55 AM — (Reply)

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