Ep. 07 - Inspiration: From the Essex to Moby Dick
01/04/22 • 24 min
Finding inspiration can be difficult at times. Everyone has different motivations and driving factors. The simple things that make you, well you.
It usually turns out that when you find something that inspires you to start whatever it may be, it rarely comes to you when you are desperately searching for it.
We all face a lack of inspiration at times. Despite what your profession or hobby may be, you will undoubtedly in time, face a season where you just can’t seem to find your place.
Any new journey that we start in life, all begin with a simple idea that inspired us. To create, to explore, to stretch out and reach to make your dreams, a reality.
Sometimes though, inspiration can hit you when you least expect it. Igniting a spark inside, that you never knew was there.
I doubt anyone would ever seriously believe that we could find it in, let’s say, a tragic story that we heard about.
But it could be as simple as that. Reading through an article or an old book and discovering something that you never knew, but it grabbed your attention and held onto it.
Discovering a new story of an event that happened in history, can be captivating. But also, sometimes, it can be jarring. As if the reality of the story, the weight that it carried, couldn’t possibly be real.
I can’t help but to imagine that this is what it had been like for Herman Melville when he read the story of the American whaler vessel from Nantucket, called the Essex.
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Finding inspiration can be difficult at times. Everyone has different motivations and driving factors. The simple things that make you, well you.
It usually turns out that when you find something that inspires you to start whatever it may be, it rarely comes to you when you are desperately searching for it.
We all face a lack of inspiration at times. Despite what your profession or hobby may be, you will undoubtedly in time, face a season where you just can’t seem to find your place.
Any new journey that we start in life, all begin with a simple idea that inspired us. To create, to explore, to stretch out and reach to make your dreams, a reality.
Sometimes though, inspiration can hit you when you least expect it. Igniting a spark inside, that you never knew was there.
I doubt anyone would ever seriously believe that we could find it in, let’s say, a tragic story that we heard about.
But it could be as simple as that. Reading through an article or an old book and discovering something that you never knew, but it grabbed your attention and held onto it.
Discovering a new story of an event that happened in history, can be captivating. But also, sometimes, it can be jarring. As if the reality of the story, the weight that it carried, couldn’t possibly be real.
I can’t help but to imagine that this is what it had been like for Herman Melville when he read the story of the American whaler vessel from Nantucket, called the Essex.
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Ep. 06 - Consequences: SS Princess Sophia
Decisions. We as human beings are met with multiple decisions that we must make on a daily basis.
What to wear, what to eat, the list goes on and on. These require little to no thought and carry almost no weight on our everyday lives.
Some important decisions though, can stick with us for a lifetime. Adding unwanted stress on top of an already difficult situation. And that added stress can begin to bear down on us. Stress, that can have a lasting effect on what we ultimately decide to do.
Fortunately for us though, most difficult decisions we are met with, only affect ourselves and maybe a handful of other people in our lives.
For the majority, we will rarely, if ever, be met with a decision that can have a lasting impact on dozens of people.
But on January 8th of 1904, Captain George Roberts aboard the SS Clallam would be met with a situation, that required a decision as such.
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Ep. 08 - Pushing Boundaries: The Franklin Expedition
As with anything though, front line exploration comes at a cost. Whether it be mapping out new lands, or walking on the moon, there will always be dangers involved when you are on the cutting edge.
And that is where Sir John Franklin found himself in 1845. He was assigned to navigate and chart the unknown waters of the long sought after Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic.
The goal was a simple one: Find a passable shortcut route from Europe to Asia, to further expand their trading reach in ways they hadn’t yet been able to do.
By 1845, the Canadian Arctic had been explored and extensively researched, but still no passable route to reach Asia had been revealed.
Though their early efforts were not in vain. They had narrowed it down to about roughly 70,000 square miles of unknown territory left to search, that could possibly lead to the passage they desperately wanted to find.
The possible reward for this venture was very high, and would come with a lot of fame and recognition. But the cost, you see, needed to be paid in full. And the cost that was demanded, was everything.
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