Sea Legs
A Memoir
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Sea Legs
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Colleen Kinder
Summary
In her years of writing and teaching, Colleen has always seen travel as a drug—an anti-depressant, specifically, a way of navigating her complex mental health issues. Fresh from a break up and struggling with writing yet another challenging manuscript that she just can't seem to finish, she tells her therapist she’s heading out to sea to teach high-achieving college students how to render their thoughts and feelings in prose. She wonders if she’ll feel high the entire voyage. When they set sail, students literally tumble around the decks tossed by giant waves, Kinder scraps the whole syllabus on a whim, dreams about her ex, and wonders what will happen when the Big Book she’s spent months filling notebooks for doesn’t get finished, when she’s back to eating nothing but green apples, when she doesn’t trust her own hope.
But she finds joy in her students. “We’re here to convey,” she tells them. “My job is to prove that you can.” And they do—over the months at sea, gaining control over their own stories under Colleen’s tutelage. And, slowly, they guide her back to her own.
Sea Legs is a love story, a deep examination of the self, an ode to the power of escaping but the necessity of coming home to yourself.
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