The extraordinary course of an unaccomplished dream
May 22, 2011 in The Course Overview
Overview
The fascinating survival story of an abandoned then battered child whose parents retrenched on two continents, alternately consider him a pawn or a token for their personal vengeance and problems. As a survivor of battered child syndrome he discovers within the gulf of the continental separation lays an ocean and a passion for the sea, a communion that heals and replenishes him. The young then middle age adult remains prey to the parental uses and abuses until his late discovered soul mate helps free him from this bondage, free to rebuild his life. As the middle aged adult communes one last time with the sea, traumatic events linked to a final betrayal of trust open the floodgate of long repressed emotional pain and baggage.
The extraordinary course of an unaccomplished dream
By Seanseamour
PART ONE Birth of a Dream
Chapter 1 Returning to the Genesis
- Aunt Minnie’ Foster Home
- Living with a Father and Mother
- Roosevelt Hospital – protected by coma
- Freedom to Be in Paradise
- The Sea
- My First Boat
- Back to School – learning French at Le Couvent
- Catherine becomes Maman
- My First Atlantic Crossing
- The Battered Child Returns for More, for the Farm
- The Young Adult Returns One Last Time
Chapter 2 Back to the Water
- Wanting my Dove – building my dream
- Preparing my Cocoon
- Cutting the Umbilical Chord
Chapter 3 The Journey
- Hanging Off the Bow
- Utter Despair – last message in the bottle
- Pull the EPIRB?
- A Human Voice in the Storm
- Freeing the Dove to Fly Again
- Empowered Again
- My Mid-Atlantic Pond
- Horta, At Last
Chapter 4 Sharing the Journey with Brian
- My Lost Child
- The Near Miss
- Laughing Pains and a Lesson
PART TWO Uncharted Courses
Chapter 5 Return to the Auberge
- Domus
- Always Back to the Chesapeake
- My Other Construct Gone Awry
Chapter 6 Freedom mortgaged by sobering realities
- Family Magnet
- Another Foreclosure in the Wait
- Matriarchal Glue
- Duty Bound, Adolescent Recaptured
Chapter 7 Trolling for Crew lands my Soul-Mate
- Loneliness Hurts Less Alone
- Not Alone Living a Predicament
- Sharing my Passion – Corsica at Last
- Dramatic Arrival in Port Cros
Chapter 8 Building our future
- Taking “Relationships 101”
- Mayke Builds her Web
- Sean Seamour the First
- José and the Menorca, Happy Past and Present
- Seanee the Second, Fielding the Dream
Chapter 9 Freedom in Perspective, Winter of Discontent
- Freedom Comes Into Perspective
- Setbacks, Deceits and Betrayals
- Back to the Building Blocks of the institute with no Fireboat
Chapter 10 Committing my Dream Away
- The French Mother Revealed – Again
- My Soul Mate Humanizes the Building Blocks
Chapter 11 Sailing on Land in Revolt
- Failed Escape
- Sharing Memories Past with Mayke
Chapter 12 The Long Journey Back
- Mending Fences Fails – The End of my Relationship with Marie
- Continuing the Dream – Backtracking to CONUS
- Cap Verde, course interruption in magical islands
- Always Ready for… this Time Stopping the TGV
- Returning to our Rehabilitated Village Wart
- Back to Home Waters – Tampa andthe Gulf
- Loosing Queen Mum
- Oriental – over the bridge a Dream Come True
Chapter 13 Disaster Awaits
- Betrayals and Setbacks Again
- 2004 – 2005 : Hell or Purgatory
- Loosing Oriental, Loosing Hope
- It’s For Real – freedom in perspective
Chapter 14 Homeless at last
- Where do We Go Now – throwing darts at the world map
- The Dental Apointment – Mayke says call, People Die
- It was All in the Painting – she had seen it two years prior
- The Final Betrayal - homeless without a family
Chapter 15 Building Paradise Found
- First a Home for Mayke’s Passion
PART THREE The Almost Definitive Adventure
Chapter 16 Bringing Seanee Home
- Preparing the Adventure – Night Fevers
- The Call on Approach to Jacksonville
- Preparing for the Worst – The Knockdown
- The World Upside Down – Can’t Listen to my Pains
- Brain Driven Automatic Drive – Save the Raft at Any Cost
- GPIRB Ceases to Emit – do they know we are out here?
- Cannot Show Despair – My Final Command : Abandon Ship
- It’s my End of my Road – Time to Go
Chapter 17 How Many Miracles
- A Miracle They Came – A miracle They Engaged
- The GPIRB that Will not be Left Behind
- No Room for an Extra Crewmember – The Cable’ Last Strand
- How Did they Find Us?
- Limping Home on my Final Mission
- Still Holding my life in a Shoebox
- Why was there No Forewarning
- Lessons Learned – NOAA takes Measures
- Corporate Hubris Expressed in Silence
