JAKE MOSS: FINDING A WAY…Happy surfers, healthy shaping-room, happier PLANET! (Plus, a few ways to paint your days with the color GREEN)
I crossed paths with old friend and custom surfboard shaper, Jake Moss, while bouncing around San Diego. We exchanging greetings–small talk over a basket of raw figs–and then suddenly Jake’s eyes lit up. “I’ll be right back,” he said, disappearing quickly out of Seth and Helen’s house where we’d spontaneously rendezvoused… He returned a few […]
What’s in the Bag? the Swell packing list…
I Made it back to Swell!! And so did all my new goods! 3 Go Pro Hero cameras and a zillion different mounting gadgets (courtesy of Go Pro!) sunflower seed butter 3 zinc anodes for my propeller lots of green tea! Colloidal silver (natural antibiotic) Bodysurfing handplaner handcrafted by Blakeney Sanford–the most beautiful in all […]
Diggin Up My Sailing Roots: Meet Great Uncle Jim
My Great Uncle Jim is 97 years-old. He’s my paternal grandfather’s brother, and true to the Clark genes, he’s as tough and cantankerous as they come. It had been two years since I had made a visit to see him on one of my prior trips home. I’d been curious about my sailing roots and […]
Play Your Instrument! Passion Paves the Path… “That was Easy!”
Beyond my immediate family, I started taking notice of other people I knew who were pursuing their passions, too. My buddy Mark is doing stand-up comedy alongside his teaching job, Sean is a proud new Dad who carved a niche for himself shaping surfboards and started Forward screen-printing company. Blakeney is charging full steam ahead […]
Happiness and the pursuit of passion?
It seems clear to me that there is a direct ratio between happiness and the amount of time we spend pursuing our passions. Following my surge of inspiration to follow my heart, I noticed the people RIGHT around me who were putting themselves nearer to their passions, making a difference in their own lives, and […]
The Little Voice that KNOWS EVERYTHING
I have decided to put my ‘book project’ on hold for a variety of reasons…I won’t go into them now, but basically I realized that the time isn’t right. My heart wants my focus elsewhere! I want to live more in the moment, figure out more immediate ways of making positive environmental impacts, and put […]
Push Don’t Pollute! Sector 9 cures my ‘land-sickness’.
After a chat by phone with the immigration office in Tahiti a few days before my planned departure from California, I found out I’d be staying a little longer than expected…I couldn’t go back for another month! So with some extra time, I got to do a few things that I never get around to […]
Let it Shine! ‘Save the Waves’ meets ‘Proyecto Fronterizo’
“Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity’s willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider.” —Paul Hawken Like the comments for the last blog suggested, our individual power lies in our ability to relentlessly seek and shine our LIGHT! In the natural yin and […]
Where are we going?
Reunions with family and friends were fantastic!…but in between their glowing faces at weddings and stopovers, California felt much like a great noisy cage. The occasional glimpse of a television was terrifying, as were freeways, and the fact the Starbucks doesn’t even have a recycle bin?! The number of people still using plastic bags at […]
Small Things with Great LOVE
I’ll be back in the States through September!!…I DO regret the carbon cost in jet fuel it took to get here. So in the meantime, I’ll try to offset it a bit by sharing with you a few of my favorite organizations that are working hard to make the world a better place for all […]
