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We’re all in the same boat

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Fun fact: Today marks the 109th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. It’s a tragedy that is somehow both horrifying in its scope and mesmerizing in its legend. More than a century has passed but we’re still pretty into the story. Of course, it helps that 20 years ago or so they made a pretty cool movie about it starring beautiful people and a completely fabricated love story.

Maybe if someone gave James Cameron a few hundred million dollars and got Leo and Kate to make out on the Sultana, we’d generate a little more interest in our own maritime disaster. No, really, it’s a compelling story that should be way more famous than it is.

But anyway, I got to thinking about the Titanic after seeing that it was the anniversary of the mighty ship’s blind date with an iceberg up in the North Atlantic, and my mind just kept coming up with boat metaphors… “Like rats abandoning a sinking ship” and “the captain must go down with the ship” and “sailing on a ship of fools” and “any port in a storm” and “when my ship comes in” and such.

And one that kept popping up in my head was “We’re all in the same boat.” I guess it’s because we’ve spent the last year or so “all in this together” with the COVID-19 thing. But you know what? It’s true. No matter what divides us and no matter our differences, we all want to see our families, our communities, our society and our country succeed.

Even when I see our leaders make some decision or new piece of legislation I disagree with, I know they are doing what they truly believe is the right thing. If we could all just figure out a way to get the ship going in the right direction, we’d all be a lot better off.

Sorry, I had to throw in one more “boat” line…

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