A companion for a voyage · Eight reflections for a week at sea
Aram DiGennaro · Passage & Periplus
Now in review — headed to print
The book
A small companion volume for a week-long voyage. One chapter per day. Each day pairs a sailing practice with an inner one — leaving land, weather, watch, landfall — because at sea, our metaphors stop being metaphors. You don't talk about letting go of the shore. You let go of it.
How a day works
One day, one chapter.
I
The day's passage
What the boat is doing, and what that asks of you.
II
An old story
A myth, legend, or saint's voyage, told in full.
III
The reflection
Where the sailing and the story meet.
IV
The toast
A shared word to close the day.
The toast — a shared word to close the day
The eight chapters
Leaving Land · Going to the Edge · Death and the Founding of Worlds · The Underworld
Keep the Sails Happy · The Anchor · What You Navigate By · Return
Where it came from
Two habits that finally met.
Years of leading groups — founders, leaders, friends — through weeks at sea, and the practices, questions, and toasts developed for those voyages, trip by trip, until they had a shape of their own.
And years of reading myth and legend for what the old stories still know. The book sets the two side by side and lets each interpret the other: the day's sailing gives the story a body, and the story gives the day its depth.
From the voyages
The book is made for the boat.
Every voyage participant receives a copy when they board — one chapter for each day at sea. If a week like this calls to you — wind, watch, crew, and a book in hand — we'd love to hear from you.
