Well, it's been a busy weekend.
I got a gig writing content and researching for an upcoming surfing documentary to be released by the same people who made the Emmy award winning Storm Surfers videos.
I did a little preliminary browsing for links and spent far too much time looking at surfing video clips.
I'm not on the payroll, yet, though, so that's okay.
It seemed like a good break from all the self development "deep thinking" I was doing last week, but clearly, even in the world of surfing, people think about karma.
I pinched the cartoon above from a surfing website.
During my browsing for surf video sites, I also ran across a name that is very familiar to me.
Alby Falzon made the classic surf films, Morning of the Earth and Crystal Voyager.
I've often wondered what happened to Alby Falzon and discovered that he went on to make several documentaries about arcane spiritual traditions and traveled to some of the most remote regions of SE Asia and the Himalayas to film a variety of religious festivals.
There is little else about him online and I could only find one link to any of his more recent work and no direct link to him.
Although I don't think it will be a hot seller on my blog (what is?), here's a link to his Searching for Michael Peterson DVD.
Michael Peterson is an iconic surfer from the seventies.
He was one of the best surfers in the world in the 1970s.
He was brilliant in the water but terribly withdrawn outside the water.
Later he was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
It's probably a great DVD.
I've never met him, but I wish I knew Alby Falzon.
He and I seem to share many of the same feelings about surfing.
At heart I was always a "soul surfer" - there was nothing I liked more than surfing alone on big waves and in remote surfing spots.
I even wrote a novel about it.
One of these days maybe I'll turn it into an eBook or something.