Knowing that you are one of the few that will ever race a yacht across the planet's greatest ocean makes the cold, wet and exhausting race completely worth while.
I never expected to hear the 'D' word applied to my lifetime, although my mother, who was a small child during the Great Depression, habitually recycles buttons and sometimes even zippers.
Just like him, in that calm night, he chose to leave, and made me caught off guard, but still only had to recall good memories, also said to myself, "Nothing, everything will be the gone."
"Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus.