Saturday, March 25, 2017

please - show up - on april 1st, 2017 - 1 to 4 pm

To: all  friends of sailing lake calhoun


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please welcome Verna Monson, Ph.D.
to our next - open - and free - public event
on april 1st, 2017 - 1 to 4 pm
at the hennepin county library
Walker Library 612-543-8400
2880 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis MN 55408


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please help us re-define:
- our vision
- our mission
for the next 10 years


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We need your comments:
- B E F O R E  -  april 1st, 2017 event


so we may continue:
- with input - from YOUR  vision
- with input - from YOUR mission
for the next 10 years


We need your comments - B E F O R E  -
our next event on april 1st, 2017
PLEASE EMAIL YOUR COMMENTS TO: Verna


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Please show up on  april 1st, 2017 - 1 to 4 pm
you may come late - you may leave early
a social hour follows our monthly events
this event is NOT a fundraiser

we just need your input
to continue



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Please - sign up -

to lead your own circle:
sharing your own passion


invite your friends
to enter into your world
then
 invite your friends
to lead their own circle
to share their own passion 

open dates:
Saturday, april 29th. 2017 - 1 to 4 pm
Saturday, May 27, 2017  - 1 to 4 pm
at the hennepin county library
Walker Library 612-543-8400
2880 Hennepin Ave. Minneapolis MN 55408



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greetings - from Verna - from werner








Bill Morton

Sailing Lake Calhoun
is not a closed community;

it is a community shared with strangers,
a community shared with all,
as we share the love of sailing with those
who appear on the dock
who are open
and willing to trust.

This is an open
and growing community.

This also has become a community
of servants,
made up of sailors
who have found the fullness of life
in the only place it can be found,
in servant hood.

This is
what life is meant to be.

Indeed we have found fullness of life,
and I am so grateful.

Thank you all so very much,

Bill




Why sit in a circle?
By Bill Morton

Because it’s cold outside … yah.
Because we can’t sail … yah.


But it’s for discovery.
Sharing in a circle, we can discover one another and maybe we can even discover ourselves.  

What we really are is hidden; it is hidden in these wonderful bodies of ours.

We are spirits, embodied spirits, and we can choose to express them through words and gestures or keep them hidden.

Sitting in a circle we can share our spirits.

And our spirits are wonderful, maybe more wonderful than we know. 

Perhaps, as in all of nature, we may see the divine in each other, and if in each other maybe also in ourselves.

Whats the purpose?
Only to experience each other, only to experience life, to enjoy each other, to appreciate each other, and maybe appreciate ourselves and find the divine within.

Let’s sit in a circle, tell our stories, listen, relate, and be filled with awe.  
Hope to see you in the circle.

Bill





being present
by werner meybaum

we seldom use the words - I - me - my
we prefer to use the word we

we seldom use superlatives
very - most - greatest - worst

we seldom compare 
this - to that

complain about this or that
worry about this or that

we seldom talk
about other people

we seldom will say - i wish - i cannot wait
we prefer just being - being present











Will Winter and Mark Mettler
sailing . . . magic on Lake Calhoun
into the sunset




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We are grateful to

Will Winter

for letting us sail

his boat

... m a g i c ...


a boat ... big enough

... to seat 8 people with comfort,

and

for letting us use

his buoy for our

2011 sailing season


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Sailing Lake Calhoun


Sailing At Your Own Risk

We are serving our community.

With joy and enthusiasm

we give free sailboat rides.

free  portrait pictures

This, will be our 11th year,

that we do this

We start again,

health and weather permitting,

beginning of may 2017

until the middle of October.

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Your safety, and the safety of minors

you are responsible for,

starts the moment
you step onto the dock,
and ends when you leave

the sailing dock,

is your responsibility.

- please bring your own life jackets

and put on

before you you step onto the dock

- all children must have life jackets

properly on




in case you arrive

without a life jacket -

we have extra life jackets -

to be properly installed -

at your own risk



we reserve the right to refuse -

free sailboat rides



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Please print, sign, and bring with you

and give it to the sailor

without being asked for it :




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to get the full benefit of our program
by werner meybaum

we arrive at the sailing dock
with little or no expectations

then it may happen

that we leave the sailing dock

filled - with joy - with enthusiasm - with love


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Yes, for free.

NO strings attached

.... NO hidden agenda ...







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Bill  Morton and crew  
sailing Lake Calhoun



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Sailing for a song:



Free rides on Lake Calhoun 

include a singalong


You’ve heard of singing for your supper.
Now, two gentle souls who love sailing – and singing –
offer free rides on Lake Calhoun.
By Jeff Strickler Star Tribune
JULY 6, 2014 — 9:35PM

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PHOTOS BY KYNDELL HARKNESS • KYNDELL.HARKNESS@STARTRIBUNE.COM

Werner Meybaum waved to folks on shore 

before taking off on a trip around Lake Calhoun. 

The retired computer engineer 

offers “almost free” rides on his sailboat.

The sailboat was close enough to the shore that you could hear it: the “Itsy Bitsy Spider.” Complete with the accompanying hand gestures.Credit Werner Meybaum, a retired computer engineer who offers free rides on his sailboat every evening that the weather cooperates.
Make that almost free.
Riders have to be willing to sing, and Meybaum loves kids’ songs, especially “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”
“Deep inside all of us is a child that wants to come out and play,” he explained. “When we start singing ‘Itsy Bitsy Spider,’ I see a joy come out on their faces. That inner child in all of us appears. Magic has happened.”
It just so happens that Magic is the name of his boat.
Meybaum gave Polly Penney a hug after giving her a sailboat ride around Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis.
Meybaum gave Polly Penney a hug after giving her a sailboat ride around Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis.
Meybaum and the Rev. Bill Morton, a retired United Methodist minister, are the driving force — along with the wind, of course — of Sailing Lake Calhoun. This is the eighth summer that they have given rides on their boats.

Their website promises “no strings attached, no hidden agenda.” Their motivation is simple: They want to spread the joy they get from sailing to everyone they can.
“I’ve discovered how much fun it is to share something you love with other people,” Morton said.
There is no set schedule. The rides typically start in the late afternoon and last until sunset. They usually last 20 to 30 minutes, although no one is watching the clock. If there are a lot of people waiting, the trips will be shorter. If it’s a quiet night, the boat will stay out longer.
Would-be riders gather on the boat dock at the Lake Calhoun pavilion. Sometimes they flag down the sailboat, other times the offer comes as a surprise.
Beth Steuer and Kaitlin Sikich were sitting on the dock with a couple of out-of-town visitors — Andrew Schlicksup of Phoenix and Sarah Sweeney from Milwaukee — when Meybaum swooped in next to them on his boat and asked if they wanted to go for a ride.
“I’d heard rumors about this but I didn’t know it actually happened,” Steuer admitted.
“This would happen only in Minnesota,” Schlicksup said.
Werner Meybaum waved to passersby as he sailed Lake Calhoun.
Werner Meybaum waved to passersby as he sailed Lake Calhoun.
Two men, one mission
Meybaum, 74, is an effusive man who, once you’ve met him, will greet you with the kind of robust hug normally reserved for a long-lost friend. Morton, 81, is quieter but equally friendly, one of those people who remembers everyone’s name after just one handshake.
Their philosophies differ. You “ride” with Meybaum, but you “sail” with Morton.
Meybaum pilots a large, heavy boat that holds up to eight adults, who sit in a sunken cockpit low enough that no one has to duck when the boat changes direction and the boom on the sail comes whizzing overhead. Passengers are encouraged to sit back and relax — at least until Meybaum decides that it’s time to start singing.
Morton, on the other hand, offers a more active ride. His boat, Wind Dancer, is a smaller, lighter craft that will hold only two other people. The trip begins with a quick lecture about how the passengers are going to have to help by ducking under the boom and scrambling to the other side of the boat as a counterbalance against the wind every time it “comes about” (sailing jargon for changing direction).

Morton also doesn’t sing on his boat. He does philosophize, however, about how zigzagging across the lake is like navigating life.
“If you want go straight ahead, get a motorboat,” he said. “Sailboats go with the wind, and sometimes the wind isn’t blowing the exact direction you want to go, so you adjust. That’s what happens in life, too.”
Morton jokingly claims that he was shanghaied into offering rides.
“I noticed that Werner always had passengers with him, but I had no idea where they were coming from,” he said. “Then one day, I was pulling up to the dock in my boat, and Werner was offering two people a ride. He said to them, ‘I don’t have enough room in my boat for you, but Bill will take you.’ How was I supposed to back out of that? So I said, ‘OK, I will.’ ”
One thing that Meybaum and Morton have in common — beyond their passion for sailing, of course — is a gentle presence. They’re “very unthreatening,” is the way Morton puts it.
There’s something about going up to complete strangers and asking if they want to go for a ride that smacks of unsavory shenanigans. They get some strange looks, Morton said, but once people realize that they’re trustworthy, most folks are eager to climb aboard.
Creating new memories
For Meybaum, offering sailboat rides is a form of karmic payback and a way of reconnecting with a childhood in which happiness was all too fleeting.
The first five years of his life “were made in heaven. I grew up on a farm in East Prussia. But then the war [World War II] shut down my childhood.”
He was separated from the rest of his family for six months — something that left him battling separation anxiety for most of his life, he said — before finally being reunited in a refugee camp where he would spend the next 10 years.
When he was 17, he was sitting with a friend watching sailboats ply Aussenalster Lake in Hamburg, West Germany.
“We were wondering to ourselves how the boats could sail into the wind as well as with the wind,” he said. “We went up to this stranger — which took a lot of courage in Germany in those days, a lot of courage — and asked if we could go for a ride. And he said, ‘Sure, jump in.’ ”
Meybaum, who emigrated to the United States when he was 19 and ended up in the Twin Cities when he married a Minnesotan, describes that afternoon as “about the only joyful memory of my childhood after we left the farm in East Prussia.”
Morton’s introduction to sailing was less traumatic. He was just trying to avoid hurting his family’s feelings.
“My wife and three sons went in together to buy me sailing lessons for a birthday present,” he said. “I thought, ‘What do I need with sailing lessons?’ But I took them. I discovered that sailing is infectious — and I got infected.”
The Lake Calhoun sailing community has rallied around them, especially after Meybaum suffered a stroke — his second — last year. They’ve donated equipment and helped pay the buoy fee for his boat. James Michelau, John Hart and Devlin Shaughnessy, among others, will take people out on Magic if Meybaum isn’t able, while others, like Aaron Kontz, follow Morton’s lead and offer rides on their own boats.
Michelau, Hart, Shaughnessy and Kontz all had their very first sailboat rides for free, courtesy of Meybaum, of course.
All they had to do was sing.
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We are grateful to

Sally

for letting us use

her buoy for our

2009 sailing season

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We are grateful to
Judy  Goldberg

for her support
2010 sailing season

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We are grateful to
Tim Crampton

for letting us use
his buoy for our
2012 sailing season
2013 sailing season
2014 sailing season
2015 sailing season
2016 sailing season



Louie Austin asked:

I love to find out how I can help!


Werner Meybaum . . .
o h . . . y e s
Louie Austin . . .

if you can
if anybody can

please email Tim Crampton
timnorkuscrampton@yahoo.com

to help us pay our annual 2016 buoy fee of $ 450
we thank  all  ... helping us ... to continue ...



... ameer ...



... carrie ...


and many more
responding to our call for action

greetings from werner




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we are grateful to
James Michelau

for his full-time
volunteer service

to our community
for maintaining magic

for setting sail
for taking people sailing

for putting the boat away at night

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we are grateful to

Benjamin Erick Wellumson

for their support
for maintaining magic
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we are grateful to
John

for setting sail
for taking people sailing

for putting the boat away at night
for maintaining magic

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we are grateful

to Devlin

to Ameer

to Hugh

to Jim

. . . . . . . . .


to Larry Salzman

to Mike Elson

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dining ... on a sailboat

on magic ... is magic

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listen to your music

. . . enjoy . . .


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it is magic
by werner meybaum

when we leave the dock
we leave the chit chat on the dock

we take a deep breath
we enter the precious present

we hear the sounds
the wind ... the sails ... the water

we see the sky
the clouds ... the birds

the wind fills the sails
the boat glides through the water

it is magic
being in the precious present


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to get the full benefit of our program
by werner meybaum

we arrive at the sailing dock
with little or no expectations

then it may happen
that we leave the sailing dock

filled with joy ... with enthusiasm
with love


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Bill Morton ... and crew ...

Bill Morton ... and crew ... sailing Lake Calhoun





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The sailing dock
is at the north-east corner of Lake Calhoun:
3000 Calhoun Parkway East, Minneapolis, MN
Free neigborhood street parking.

Here ...
you see the entrance to the sailing dock. The pavillion,
the Tin Fish restaurant, is on the right,
the sailing school is on the left.
Please watch weather forecast

click on the links below:




Calm ... less than 1 mph ... Still air. Sea is like a mirror.



Light Air ... 1-3 mph ... Flags don’t move. Ripples on water.

Slight Breeze ... 4-7 mph ... Face feels the wind. Leaves rustle. Flags slight move.

Perfect sailing.


Gentle Breeze ... 8-10 mph ... Leaves and twigs move. Flags begin to extend.

Perfect sailing.


We stop giving free sailboat rides
when we observe whitecaps.




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On the day you want to go sailing ... : ...

just come
to the lake calhoun sailing dock ...
with little or no expectations ...

observe our sailing activities ... ... ...
introduce yourself to sailors or people at the dock ...
let them know you want to go on a sailboat ride ...

then it may happen ... that you  leave
the sailing dock richly rewarded ...

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Your safety, and the safety of minors you are
responsible for, starts the moment
you step onto the dock,
and ends when you leave the sailing dock,
is your responsibility.

- please bring your own life jackets and put on before you get into the boat

- all children and all non-swimmers must have life jackets on

- all swimmers - must have life jackets on
or must have life jackets on their lap


in case you arrive without a life jacket - we have extra life jackets in the boat

_________________________________________


Please print, sign, and bring with you

and give it to the sailor

without being asked for it :




_________________________________________
being present
by werner meybaum

we seldom use the words ... I ... me ... my
we prefer to use the word ... we ...

we ... seldom use superlatives
very ... most ... greatest ... worst ...

we seldom
compare ... this to that

complain ... about this or that
worry ... about this or that

we seldom talk
about other people

we seldom will say
i wish ... i cannot wait

we ... prefer ... just being
being present

being filled
with joy, enthusiasm, love





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Our Mission:

is to serve, with joy, with enthusiasm, with love

is to tell people about free books:

a book to read in 30 minutes ...

please read chapter 8, page 94, on Love/Hate Relationships ...



click links below for ... : ...






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Sailboat rides are also
for taking free pictures ...
making memories ...
making friends ....
building  community. . .






thank  you  ameer


thank  you  carrie



thank  you  
Louie Austin  

zen-like

Observe  Nature
People
with  acceptance
being present
by werner meybaum
we seldom use the words - I - me - my
we prefer to use the word we
we seldom use superlatives
very - most - greatest - worst
we seldom compare
this - to that
complain about this or that
worry about this or that
we seldom talk
about other people
we seldom will say - i wish - i cannot wait
we prefer just being - being present