"I’LL DO IT MAY WAY"

 

“WALK YOUR TALK, CAPTURE YOUR DREAM AND MAKE IT HAPPEN” IS THE APPROPRIATE INTRODUCTION TO HELP US REMEMBER,  NENAD, "NENO" TO HIS FRIENDS.

 

HE WAS THE FAITHFUL LIFE COMPANION TO   HIS DELIGHTFUL WIFE ELLEN, DEAR “DAD” TO HIS WONDERFUL DAUGH- TERS  DARA AND  MAIA, “TAT”, A GOOD BUDDY, TO HIS SONS ADRIAN AND ROKO, THE  SAGACIOUS OLDER BROTHER TO PREDRAG, MECO, ANA AND IVAN, THE LONGSTANDING REAL PAL TO VEJAC , BRANKEC .... AND TO A FEW  OTHERS.

 

OVER THE THREE DECADES OR SO  NENO WAS MY FAITHFUL ALLEY, MY ”SAVEZNIK”, MY MAIN MAN, INDEED MY TRUE FRIEND.

 

AS ONE OF NENO’S UNCONVENTIONAL FRIENDS, I AM  NOT A HERO WORSHIPER. I WILL THEREFORE TRY TO PROFILE NENO REALISTICALLY, ALTERNATELY BY PRAISING HIM AND THEN BEING SOMEWHAT IRREVERENT  AND EVEN A TOUCH HARSH HERE AND THERE. EXCEPT FOR THE KUDOS ... FOR WHICH NENO WOULD HAVE REFUSED ANY CREDIT,  HE WOULD NOT HAVE DISAGREED WITH WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY.

 

 

SO LAND ME YOUR EAR AND YOU WILL THEN GET TO KNOW  NENO AS VERY FEW DID, MORE INTIMATELY.

 

AND NOW FORGET ABOUT THE CLOCK AND THE  RUSH HOUR IN ALL OF ITS “RUSHING” ASPECTS, UNWIND AND, AS STUDS TERKEL USED TO SAY, “TAKE IT EASY BUT TAKE IT”.    

 

A VERY COMPLEX AND PRIVATE MAN NENO WAS, NOT ONE TO WEAR HIS FEELINGS ON HIS SHIRT SLEEVES UNLESS YOU HAPPENED TO BE A MEMBER OF HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY, OR ONE OF THE FEW OF HIS OLD AND TRUSTED COMRADES.

 

HE WAS  SOMEWHAT OF A LONER WITH HIS VERY OWN AGENDA, A RENAISSANCE  MAN AT HEART,   AN INTROVERTED MAVERICK BUT, MAKE NO MISTAKE, MAVERICK NEVERTHELESS, PROFESSIONAL TO A”T” " WHEN REQUIRED, AND BE- HIND THIS FACADE REFRESHINGLY BOHEMIAN AT HART.

 

AN INDIVIDUALIST AND VERY MUCH HIS OWN MAN, NENO WAS VALIANTLY TRYING AND ACCEPTABLY SUCCEEDING

IN NEGOTIATING LAND-BASED  LIFE BY ATTEMPTING TO FIT WITHIN THE TIGHT PARAMETER OF OUR MUNDANE SOCIETY.

 

ON THAT SCORE, NENO ONCE QUIPPED: “ I AM JUST A REGULAR RUN-OF-THE-MILL GUY.” MY ANSWER: “HEY, I AM MO- THER TERESA!.”

 

NENO WAS A “TRIP”. STUBBORN AS THE PROVERBIAL DALMATIAN "MAGARAC"/DONKEY, HE WAS HARD TO DERAIL FROM HIS TRACK ONCE HIS GOAL HAS BEEN SET, AND ALL THE LOGIC TO THE CONTRARY BE DAMNED. AT SUCH TIMES HE SEEMED TO SAY TO ME IN EFFECT, “IF I WANT YOUR OPINION, I’LL GIVE IT TO YOU”.

 

AT TIMES SELF-CENTERED, HE WAS OCCASIONALLY INDIGESTIBLY PRISSY AS AN OLD MAID CROCHETING A DELICATE DOILY. HE COULD BE UNNERVINGLY RIGHTEOUS, AND ALL TOO OFTEN  ALMOST  TOTALLY  BLIND TO THE OBVIOUS FAULTS OF HIS CLOSE BUDDIES WHO DELIGHTED  IN HIS FUN- LOVING ATTITUDE, HIS BITING WIT, HIS JOKES AND HIS COLORFUL LANGUAGE.

 

COLORFUL LANGUAGE ABOUNDED, IN THIS TELLING SNAPSHOT OF NENO’S LIFE,  WHEN ALL TOO  LONG AGO, HE, HIS OTHER ANCIENT  FRIEND VEJAC AND I GOT TOGETHER ON THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC AND DECIDED ONE EVENING TO “LET OUR HAIR DOWN A BIT”.

 

FORTIFIED WITH DALMATIAN WINE, WE EVER SO  PAINLESSLY IMAGINED  TO FIND OURSELVES ON THE EASY-GOING ISLAND OF HVAR, THE PRECIOUS PEARL OF THE ADRIATIC SEA.

 

THERE  THE  INTOXICATING SUMMER BREEZE  “TRAMONTANA” SET US OFF.

 

ON THIS ISLAND THE WORDS "EFFICIENCY” AND PRODUCTIVITY” WERE THEN BORDERING ON BLASPHEMY, AND THE WORKING DAY SEEMED TO START ON SOME  VERY VAGUELY DEFINED AND DISTANT TOMORROW. 

 

IN HVAR HURRYING WAS CONSIDERED TO BE STRICTLY THE DEVIL’S WORK, AND WE TOTALLY AGREED WITH THAT.

 

WE STUFFED OUR FACES WITH  ADRIATIC DISHES REEKING WITH OLIVE OIL-SOAKED GARLIC. WE HASHED AND RE- HASHED SPICY OLD  COUNTRY HILARIOUS STORIES WHILE LITERALLY CHOKING WITH LAUGHTER.

 

BRAYING DISSONANTLY, OVER AND OVER OLD TUNES DEALING WITH THE SEA ADDED THE HARMONIC ASPECT TO OUR GATHERING. 

 

S "TAMO DALEKO ...." AN OLD SWEET SENTIMENTAL SONG DEALING WITH SEA AND LOVE  WAS ONE OF NENO’S FAVORITES, A FEW SHORT VERSES SAY IT ALL. SO HERE IS TO YOU, OLD BUDDY

 

AS OUR EVENING UNWOUND, WE BLABBED JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT EVENING , FROM THE EASTERN EUROPEAN BYGONE CORRUPT MONARCHIES TO THE INTRICATE DESIGNS OF UMBRIAN A CERAMICS.

 

ACTING LIKE MINDLESS TEENAGERS WAS LOT OF FUN.

 

WE HARMLESSLY JOKED ABOUT THE UPWARDLY MOBILE SOCIETY. THE YUPPIES, X-GENERATION AND  “WANNABEES”  WERE ON OUR AGENDA.

 

PEOPLE KEEPING UP WITH THE JONSES  ACCORDING TO NENO, WERE “MARTYRS ON VIA DOLOROSA” /THE PAINFUL ROAD JESUS FOLLOWED PRIOR TO HIS  CRUCIFIXION . 

 

WHEN ONE-UPMANSHIP CAME ON OUR DECK, NENO WAS CERTAIN THAT ANTE, THE OLD FISHERMAN FROM HVAR

WOULD HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED JUST THINKING ABOUT IT, LET ALONE PRACTICING IT.

 

ANTE’S SPEED WAS PLAYING A LEISURELY/”CON LA FIACCA” GAME OF BOCCIE BY THE SEASIDE WITH HIS CRONIES FORTIFIED BY WINE EVERY A HALF-A-DOZEN OF  THROWS OR SO.  

 

OUR BAND OF SOCIAL INGRATES WAS MASTERFULLY DIRECTED BY NENO OUR “CAPOBANDA”, OUR MAESTRO.

 

GOD MUST HAVE GOTTEN A BAD CASE OF THE BLUES WHEN LOOKING DOWN AT US, BUT SEEMED TO BE FORGIVING. MODERATELY INEBRIATED AND STILL REEKING WITH GARLIC, WE TENTATIVELY AND  GENIALLY  CONCLUDED THAT GOD MUST HAVE LIKED SEEING THE  THREE OLD BUDDIES HAVING A BARREL OF FUN, AND THAT GOD  LIKED  THE  SMELL OF GARLIC AS WELL.

                                     

EVEN WHEN SMELLING OF GARLIC, NENO WAS QUITE BRIGHT WITHOUT BEING OVERBEARING, ETHICAL WITHOUT BEING RELIGIOUS, CULTURED WITHOUT BEING STUFFY, SELECTIVELY ALTRUISTIC WITHOUT EXPECTING  ANYTHING IN RETURN, SATIRICAL WITHOUT BEING  A CYNIC, EVER SO CHALLENGING WITHOUT BEING ENTRAPPING, SENSITIVE AND SENTIMEN-

TSL WITHOUT BEING NECESSARILY OBVIOUS ABOUT IT. 

 

HE  ALSO HAD  A WELL HIDDEN SENSITIVE AND EVEN POETIC A SOUL AND, BEING HUMBLE AND A CLASS GUY,  HE TENDED TO RELATE TO PEOPLE WITH A CAPITAL “YOU”AND A SMALL ”i”, NOT A COMMON TRAIT THESE DAYS AND  ESPECIALLY UNUSUAL FOR A DOCTOR.

 

COSMOPOLITAN, A FREE THINKER UNCONSTRAINED  BY “ISMS”, NENO WAS,  IN A VERY TRUE SENSE, A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.

 

REMEMBER, A WHILE  BACK  NENO  CALLED HIMSELF A "REGULAR RUN-OF-THE MILL GUY’? RIGHT ON.

 

(SAY "QUOTE")  “HE WAS AN AMAZING TEACHER ...    IT WAS A REAL JOY TO WATCH HIS ANALYTICAL MIND AND CLINICAL BRILLIANCE IN ACTION” SO WROTE RECENTLY DR. TWARDOWSKI, ONE OF NENO’S MEDICAL STUDENTS NOW AN ONCO-LOGIST LIVING IN CALIFORNIA......  SO MUCH FOR NENO , "THE REGULAR GUY".

 

AS AN ALL-AROUND SINGULARLY COMPETENT PHYSICIAN, NENO FOCUSED NOT  ONLY ON THE SCIENTIFIC ASPECTS OF MEDICINE BUT, TOUCHINGLY COMPASSIONATE, AND FORGETTING ABOUT HIS OVERCROWDED SCHEDULE, HE MADE AND TOOK THE TIME TO ADDRESS THE EMOTIONAL NEEDS OF HIS PATIENTS AS WELL.

 

RAPACIOUS CURIOSITY AND WONDERMENT, BOTH  CONTAGIOUS AND ENTICING, ROUND OUT NENO’S PERSONA. 

 

SUM IT UP, AND WHAT DO YOU GET? NOT EXACTLY A LEVITATING SAINT-ELECT  ABOUT TO BE CANONIZED, BUT RATHER A BIT OF A CONCEALED DEVIL WITH THE HALO SPINNING AROUND ONE  OF HIS HORNS   .... YET THE BEST FRIEND ANY- BODY COULD ASK FOR.

 

THIS FRIEND OF MINE, MY FELLOW MARINER, ALSO HAD A MISTRESS ........   THE DEEP BLUE SEA ...  THE MOTHER-LOAD OF ALL LIFE .....   HIS  OTHER LOVE.

 

NOT TO ADDRESS DILIGENTLY THIS ASPECT OF  NENO’S LIFE,  IS TO MISS A HUGE CHUNK OF HIS PERSONALITY ...  PER- HAPS HALF OF HIS EXISTENCE.

 

THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND AND LOVE THE SEA, KNOW THAT IT CAN BE  IRRESISTIBLY ADDICTIVE, THAT IT CAN UN-  CHAIN  AND THUS FREE A MARINERS’ SOUL. IT CAN EFFECTIVELY AND MERCIFULLY ISOLATE A SAILOR FROM THE HARSHNESS OF SOCIETY AND FROM ROUTINE OF DAILY LIFE , THE VERY PLUSES WHICH NENO SOUGHT THROUGHOUT

HIS LIFE. 

 

 

A SAILOR’S LIFE ISN’T EASY ... MY FRIENDS. YOU GOT TO WANT IT AS BADLY AS NENO DID IN ORDER TO PRESERVE YOUR SANITY AND BE ABLE  TO SURVIVE   CRITICISM BY LANDLUBBERS.

 

SOME OF NENO’S  FRIENDS THOUGHT HE WAS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY FOR BEING A SAILOR  IN THE FIRST PLACE. THEY JUST DIDN’T GET IT.  THEY COULD NOT CONCEIVE THAT A RATIONAL PERSON COULD INDULGE IN THIS SPORT VOLUNTARILY. THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND HIS DEVOTION TO THE WATER. IT WAS CLEAR TO ME THOUGH THAT NENO WAS DEVOT- ED TO IT, EXCESSIVELY SO AT TIMES.

 

LONG AGO NENO MET HIS VERY OWN “SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS” WHERE AN IRRESISTIBLE SIREN ........... CHARMED HIM AND, MUCH LIKE ODYSSEUS, HE JUST COULD NOT RESIST HER INCANTATIONS. SHE SEDUCTIVELY WHISPERED  INTO HIS EAR “HEY, BUDDY BOY  .....GET A LIFE ... IT GOES BY FAST ... YOU’RE NOT GOING TO GET OUT OF LIFE  EVERYTHING YOU WANT, BUT MAKE SURE THAT WHAT YOU GET ...YOU DEARLY LOVE   ............ LIKE A ROWING  ADVENTURE ACROSS THE MIGHTY ATLANTIC DURING WHICH YOU’LL  HAVE TIME TO RENEW YOURSELF."

 

SHE READ HIS MIND AND FROM THEN ON NENO IRREVERSIBLY HUNG TO HIS DREAM, IGNORING HIS   FRIENDS’ WELL-MEANING AND OFTEN VERY WELL FOUNDED PROTESTS.

 

A FEW DAYS BEFORE HIS TRANSATLANTIC DEPARTURE, HE MADE A COMMENT TO THE PRESS: "MY  WIFE, SHE IS A DAR- LING, BUT SHE IS NOT DOING WITH THIS VERY WELL" .

 

WELL, GODDAMMIT, I WAS NOT NENO’S DARLING, BUT AN OLD BUDDY AND A LIFE-LONG  SAILOR TO BOOT, AND YET AT THAT TIME, I TOO WAS NOT DEALING WITH THIS VERY WELL AT ALL. I SAID AS MUCH TO NENO BUT TO NO AVAIL, HE TOLD ME TO GO AND, LET’S  SAY, .....  FLY A KITE. 

 

A DAY OR TWO LATER , WHEN ASKED BY A REPORTER ABOUT  THE REASONS FOR HIS ONCOMING ROWING ADVENTURE, NENO CURTLY  DISMISSED HIM BY REPLYING: “THAT IS THE QUESTION FOR WHICH THERE IS NO ANSWER” ....

 

NONSENSE! THERE IS AN ANSWER AND I’LL GIVE TO YOU NOW.

 

EVER SINCE NENO WAS A SQUIRT, HIS DREAM, HIS AMBITION AND LATER HIS COMPULSION WAS TO BECOME A “NOSTRO- MO", A MERCHANT SHIP CAPTAIN,   BUT  WITH LIFE’S TWISTS AND TURNS HE GOT  RAILROADED AND  ENDED UP ENTER- ING MEDICINE INSTEAD.

 

WHILE A WORTHY PROFESSION MEDICINE, TRUST ME, ONLY VERY PARTIALLY FILLED HIS SOUL. NENO  HEALED A LOT OF PEOPLE BUT HE WOUNDED HIS HEART IN THE PROCESS. THAT WAS OBVIOUS TO HIM AND TO ME AS WELL. 

 

SUBCONSCIOUSLY AT  FIRST, CONSCIOUSLY THEREAFTER, NENO TRIED TO GET BACK ON TRACK, TO RECONNECT WITH HIS YOUTH AND  TO RECAPTURE HIS DREAM AND TURN IT INTO  REALITY, TO MAKE UP FOR THE OCEAN-TIME LOST  AND TO BECOME AND REMAIN ONE WITH THE SEA ... AT LEAST TEMPORARILY.

 

HE WAS GOING TO DO IT HIS WAY THOUGH BY  SETTING DOGGEDLY HIS OWN SCHEDULE AND, PUTTING IT MILD- LY, BY DOING  HIS  OWN  THING ...  AT TIMES SEEMINGLY TO THE EXCLUSION OF ONE AND ALL.

   

 

NENO'S TRIP HAD ONLY MODERATELY  TO DO WITH THE "MACHO THING". IT HAD, HOWEVER, SIGNIFICANTLY TO DO WITH HIS HOPED-FOR "RAISON D'ETRE", REASON FOR BEING, AND "BEING", IN THIS CASE, MEANT  CATCHING  UP WITH THE OCEAN AND GETTING OUT TO SEA.

 

HE,  NOT UNLIKE SOME DIED-IN-THE-WOOL SEAMEN, WANTED TO LIVE THE CREDO, "NAUTA SUM, ERGO SUM", I AM A MARINER THEREFORE I AM ..... BASICALLY ... THEREFORE I EXIST.... 

 

BUT WHY ROWING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC?

 

BECAUSE BY SO DOING  IT PUT NENO, THE  UNSHAKEABLE, UNBENDABLE AND OVERLY-FOCUSED INDIVIDUALIST, IN A SELECT GROUP, “ E PLURIBUS .......... UNUM”, ONE OUT OF MANY WHO OPTED FOR  THIS TYPE OF CROSSING.

 

ROWING SOLO WAS INDIVIDUALISM PERSONIFIED, THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE. IT WAS THEREFORE THE  ONE THAT EXCLUSIVELY CAPTURED  HIM.

 

TO GET TO THIS JUNCTION ........  AN INCREASINGLY ASCENDING “MACHO THING” MIGHT HAVE BEEN HELPFUL MACHO OR NOT THIS JUNCTION CAUSED NENO SEEMINGLY TO DE-PRIORITIZE EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING EXTRANEOUS

TO SOME EXTENT..

 

ROWING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC WOULD PARTIALLY FILL THE BILL FOR NENO. IT WOULD FINALLY ALLOW HIM,  AT LAST, TO BE IN HIS OWN PERFECT ELEMENT AT LEAST FOR SOME  MONTHS. IT WOULD ALLOW HIM TO BECOME MORE OF HIS TRUE SELF  FOR THE DURATION.

 

WHAT’S MORE, THIS CROSSING WOULD FIRMLY IMPRINT ON HIS BRAIN AN INDELIBLE,  LASTING AND NURTURING MEMORY. WHEN BACK ON TERRA FIRMA, NENO COULD KEEP REACHING FOR THIS MEMORY  WHENEVER HE FOUND HIMSELF IN THE DUMPS .

 

THIS RECALL WOULD REVITALIZE AND RE-ENERGIZE HIS WHOLE BEING AND WOULD KEEP PROPPING  HIM UP FOR THE REST OF THE COMPETING YET COMPARATIVELY ANEMIC LAND-BASED LIFE.

 

AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, IT’S WHERE IT'S AT, IN FACT, IT’S EXACTLY WHERE IT’S AT, AND ..  FORGET ABOUT  "THAT IS THE QUESTION TO WHICH THERE IS NO ANSWER".   

 

MANY OF US HAVE DREAMS, IF WE DIDN’T, WE WOULD BE PASSIONLESS. YET MOST OF US EITHER DON’T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OR SIMPLY DON’T HAVE THE TENACITY  TO TURN OUR DREAM  INTO REALITY,  AND TO THAT EXTENT WE MAY  FEEL  LESS THAN COMPLETE, PERHAPS EVEN LESS THAN TRUE TO OURSELVES.

 

MOST OF US ALSO JUST TEND  TO TALK OUR WALK WHILE NENO WALKED  HIS TALK, HE LET IT RIP, GAVE IT A GO AND, WITH BOUNDLESS GUSTO AND ENERGY, HIS MARINE PASSION FLAME GLOWING, FULLY COGNIZANT OF  THE  DANGERS, HE SET THE COURSE TOWARD EUROPE ....    

 

HE DIDN’T QUITE COMPLETE HIS DREAM BUT HE CAME VERY BUT VERY CLOSE TO HIS ULTIMATE  GOAL.

    

"YOU TRIED YOUR VERY BEST" I SAY, "YOU GAVE IT YOU VERY BEST SHOT, OLD BUDDY....  YOU ROWED TOUR DREAM ....   AND IN THAT SENSE,  PARTNER, IN MY BOOK, YOU JUST WON  MAN” .

 

LIFE’S WINNING COMBINATION, ACCORDING TO NENO, WAS: TO HAVE LOVED WELL, THE AWARENESS OF HAVING BEEN LOVED, THE KNOWLEDGE THAT ONE TRIED TO FACILITATE  LIVES OF OTHERS, AND  TO THAT EXTENT THAT ONE CAN LEAVE THIS WORLD A BIT OF A BETTER PLACE THAN WHEN ONE ENTERED IT. 

 

FINALLY, THAT ONE FORGED THROUGH LIFE WITH VIGOR, GUIDED BY THE “CARPE DIEM” MOTTO, SEIZED EACH AND EVERY DAY, AND MADE IT REALLY  COUNT.

 

SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD YET A TALL  ORDER  INDEED WHICH, IN HIS INIMITABLE WAY, NENO FULFILLED TO AN ENVIABLE EXTENT.

 

HE OFTEN TOLD ME, AND I AGREED, THAT HE DIDN’T HAVE THE PATIENCE TO FADE AWAY FROM THIS WORLD EVER SO GRADUALLY.  HE WISHED, AS HE PUT IT  BLUNTLY AND COLORFULLY WHILE  ROARING WITH LAUGHTER, TO MAKE HIS FINAL EXIT "’DO DASKE’, PEDAL THE TO METAL, BALLS TO THE WALL .. THUNDERING INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER" ... AND SO HE DID TO OUR GREAT LOSS.

 

NOT TO OUR TOTAL LOSS, HOWEVER,  SINCE NENO  TANGIBLY TOUCHED  THOSE OF US WHO KNEW HIM WELL, HE MADE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE IN OUR LIVES AND THUS, IN THAT SENSE, HE WILL  ALWAYS BE A PART OF EACH AND EVERYONE OF US.

 

THIS SHORT POEM .... AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT ....  WOULD HAVE PRECISELY CAPTURED NENO’S FEELINGS:

 

                                          IF I SHOULD GO BEFORE THE REST OF YOU

                                          BREAK NOT A FLOWER OR INSCRIBE A STONE,

                                          OR WHEN I AM GONE SPEAK IN A SUNDAY VOICE

                                          BUT BE THE USUAL SELVES THAT I HAVE KNOWN.

 

                                          WEEP IF YOU MUST,

                                          PARTING IS HELL,

                                          BUT LIFE GOES ON

                                          SO SING AS WELL.

 

MERCIFULLY I PROMISE TO SPARE YOU MY SINGING, THIS TIME AROUND,  INSTEAD , AS NENO WOULD HAVE LIKED, I WILL DO MY HUMBLE BEST TO DEPICT BRIEFLY A MARINE SCENARIO,  WHICH  I  KNOW  WOULD  HAVE BEEN DEAR TO NENO’S HEART, MUSIC TO HIS EARS:

 

AND NOW JOIN ME WITH YOUR THOUGHTS ....

 

ONE DAY SOON THE SEA WILL BE CALM AGAIN, THE DAY WILL BE SO PLEASANT, THE LIFE GIVING  SUN WILL BE SO WARMING, THE SKY WILL BE DOTTED WITH COTTON-WHITE CUMULUS CLOUDS PROMISING CONTINUED FAIR WEATHER, AND THE TEMPERATURE WILL BE JUST WHAT IT OUGHT TO BE. 

 

SAILORS OUT AT SEA WILL BE CARESSED BY A GENTLE ZEPHYR EXHORTING THEM TO REACH EVER FARTHER FOR THE BOUNDLESS MARINE HORIZON.

 

AIR-BRUSHED BY NEPTUNE HIMSELF THIS HORIZON OPENS CONSTANTLY CHANGING AND INSPIRING VISTAS MASTER- FULLY INTERTWINED  WITH BLUE, GREEN, RED AND YELLOW HUES EASILY RIVALING THE VERY BEST THAT ANY MONET OR VAN GOGH COULD MATCH.

 

THIS KIND OF NENO’S OCEAN DAY HE CALLED "BONACA”.

 

IT WILL BE A GOOD DAY, A “BONACA” FOR ALL OF US TO START PURSUING OUR KIND OF OCEAN .... A GOOD DAY TO TRY TO CAPTURE OUR VERY OWN DREAM AND MAKE IT HAPPEN .... BY WALKING OUR TALK ....  AS NENO IN FACT DID.

 

 

 

 

WHENEVER I GO SAILING FROM NOW ON, OLD BUDDY, I’LL SCAN THAT BOUNDLESS MARINE HORIZON AND ........

 

NENO! .... I’LL BE SEEING YOU ......,