26/03/2016
Dear Friends, I want to thank you for your interest and support. I am a Caregiver to an elderly man( Steve Carnahan) who lost his wife 16 years ago. Both were esteemed teachers. She was lost to terminal cancer after 31 years of a loving marriage,sailing all over the world and enduring life's ups and downs. He loved her dearly and still does 16 years later.
Steve Carnahan sailed to and from USA and to Europe,Caribbean and also around Cape Horn and even SF Bay area. He was Commodore at the US Naval Academy for 11 years, brought sail boats to and from Europe, loved sailboat racing espicially the Bermuda Races. Has a zillion friends in the Navy and over the Globe. He thrives on Marine Biology. He created associations for the Off- Shore Fishing Industry in the US and abroad. In addition through his various positions he also promotes education to the young and old in Marine Biology.
I would like to take this moment to acknowlede the millions who study our world from all its facets and never get the ackowledgement they aptly are due.They motivate young people forward- not backworad. Forward to a world of knowledge, humility and perservance. Exciting both young and old to look at creatures in the sea both for their beauty, novelty, enjoyment and also to be consummed.
Steve is a remarakbe Man who has given me friendship without a physical relationship.( Unsual at times for both men and women.) He is extremely knowledgeable on almost any topic. A remarakable speaker with a wealth of knowledge that he turns into intersting and intriguing stories. He expounds in educational subjects of the wonderful caricatures of life at sea. ( He loves to create narratives of sea life.) Also, of course,sailing.
To this my friend. I with hope and pray that you can move on to your sea worthly aspirations even just one more time.
I am here to help you live and fight your medical complications. You have shown worlds of information to me that I never would have heard about. Maybe not my curoisity fields but little bits of particulars about our world. The stories show all of us how to face TRUAMA at those points in our lives when our world seems to have crumbled and we got lost.
It is to my advantage to have someone,such as my friend, provide a narrative of other forms of life, acknowledgement of friendships and the goals of those that perservere as examples of what life really about.
Learning about other forms of life and how they survive through all their life's tragedies is a concrete acknowledgement of how we all overcome our traumas. Our episdes of depression are really a normal reality. Yes even horses and dogs get depressed as well as many other animals on our planet. We are not alone in the effects of Depression and PTSD.
My friend has endured countless losess, heartaches, confusion, depression and other complicated issues. No one makes it off this planet without ups and downs.
Why some of us falter and get weighed down into the depths of Depression and PTSD is a MYSTERY, How we are made up to survive our course in life is a mystery known only to the "powers that be".
Our suffering with PTSD and Depression is part of Life. No one is immune. Having a mental illness is not a condemination of our lack of being a good human being. It is our course in life. It is not our fault that we can not put it behind us. That we can not bounce back after serving our countriy in militray attacks and witnessing the effects of terrorism. Some of us have seen countless and senseless atrocities done to human lives. My Mother used to say
" Man's Inhumanity to Man."
It has taken me a long time to figure what that meant.
I dearly hope that my friend, Steve, will survive. Good friends are hard to find and are a true treasure in the chaotic world.
Hold on. A good friend will find you.
Beverly
