Traveling Light

Moving aboard a sailboat meant deciding what truly needed to come along. The harder question was what parts of a previous life I was still carrying.

Traveling Light
This piece of furniture had been in my family for more than 120 years. For a long time, I thought I was preserving it. In the end, it was preserving a version of myself I had already left behind.

Adak weighs between 17 and 30 tons, depending on how you count. She is not a light way to move through the world. But she is also finite. Space is constrained. Everything that comes aboard displaces something else.

Each object raises the same question: does it need to be there?

The question sounds practical. It isn't.