Bob and I went to see the third film in the Caribbean trilogy “Pirates of the Caribbean” shortly after it opened last year in May, 2007. Just recently I watched it again on a lazy Sunday afternoon and was reminded of this piece I wrote, though not sure where (or if) I ever posted it. I offer it now for your amusement.

The usurper of the pirate ship "The Black Pearl" and pirate lord of the Caspian Sea territory, Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), replies, gleefully, on the crew’s journey on a junk ship through a frozen ocean to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker. When someone in his crew wails that they’re lost on their quest, Barbossa agrees that surely they were lost, and that “you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found – else-wise everyone would be able to find it.”

They continue sailing until an enormous waterfall is spotted on the horizon. The crew is alarmed, but Barbossa dismisses their fears and shouts for the crew to let the ship run "straight and true". They fall down the waterfall and into Davy Jones' Locker.

I sat up in my chair like I’d been hit by lightening. How many times have I not known where I was going; how many times have I started a search “lost” in the ether until I ran a course, “straight and true” that delivered me at my destination?

“If it were easy everyone would be doing it!” You’ve seen me post this occasionally at the end of some of my diatribes on telephone names sourcing. I guess it’s another way of saying “you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found – else-wise everyone would be able to find it” with one concept added –you have to be lost.

You have to be lost before you can find your way and this is a concept that’s not very appealing to a lot of people. But sometimes you have to be able to let yourself go, to venture into those areas where you know little to nothing, before you can find a way. This takes faith and trust in oneself and how many of us have that?

“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be revelation.” ~ Eileen Cady
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