A solitary woman kneeled facing the ocean and played a plaintive song on a recorder.
Three things I learned after first hearing "to swim in the ocean and play with monkeys" I want to share with you.
When I asked my friend Ryan, "Why are you going to Thailand?" He responded simply, "to swim in the ocean and play with monkeys".
Like a new mantra I discovered, "to swim in the ocean and play with monkeys," began running through my mind and reminding me how I wasn't living my life.
"To swim in the ocean and play with monkeys," has been a daily reminder of the peace I want to embody, while growing a business, pursuing a dream, and living my life.
One final note, when someone asks me why in the hell am I going to Thailand this summer, I'll reply simply, "to swim in the ocean and play with monkeys".
Oceanographically, the Southern Ocean is a major driver of global ocean circulation and plays a vital role in interacting with the deep water circulation in each of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans.
It has spun out from spirituals and slave plantations, crossed gender, race, class, states, rivers and oceans, and been played in juke joints, cellar bars, concert halls and stadiums.
Shelf waters represent 20% of the total Mediterranean waters, compared with the 7.6% of the world oceans, and therefore play a proportionally greater role here than in the world's oceans [4].
