““So wait a minute. I go looking for the story of the guy who wrote this awesome wind scale tha tblew my mind. I start reading about his life, and before he's sixteen years old I've already run across a family's flight from the poorhouse, an early balloon flight, an eccentric father, a young man at sea, Malay pirates, shipwreck, castaways, buried treasure, and Captain Bligh, fresh off the mutiny on the Bounty . Not a single word about the wind, but honestly, at this point, who cares?””
![“I saw myself, sharply, as a wanderer, an adventurer, rocking through the world, unanchored. [...] The wind of my life was blowing me away. [...] I take the blue envelope...and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet as I turn and…” quote by James Baldwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/63e/james-baldwin-995_adventure_i-saw-myself-sharply-as-a-wanderer-an-ad_2406906.jpg)
![“Aboard a boat of leaves I float, allowing new stories to unfold. Of cresting and falling winds, streaking words across the sky. [A Writer’s Company]” quote by Susan L. Marshall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d0e/susan-l-marshall-26831_body_aboard-a-boat-of-leaves-i-float-allowing_1284879.jpg)
