{"id":2403,"date":"2019-07-09T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2019-07-24T12:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:47:41","slug":"from-the-editor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/summer-2019\/from-the-editor-3\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

I grew up in the Midwest, and I love to watch a storm roll in across a field. But I also love to watch waves roll in to shore. When I was a kid, we trekked to New England every summer to visit family and spend time at the ocean. We went to the beach, dug for clams, and took the ferry to Block Island. Those days on the ocean were magic, and when I\u2019d lay down in bed, tired and sunbaked after a day playing in the waves, I could feel myself\u2014hours later\u2014still rocking and swaying.<\/p>\n

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Good surfers make it look effortless. When you’re learning, you realize it isn’t. And you fall in\u2014a lot\u2014as I’m about to do here.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

Last fall, my friend and I asked one of our fitness instructors at the local YMCA, who happens to be Peter Panagiotis \u201971, aka Peter Pan (read about Peter in \u201cSurf First<\/a>\u201d), if he’d teach us to surf. That weekend, we had our first lesson. I swallowed more salt water in that hour than ever in my life to that point. My arms hurt for days from paddling\u2014 hard\u2014while Peter yelled, \u201cDig! Dig! You\u2019ll never catch a wave paddling like that!\u201d But it was fun. Really fun. We surfed (Can you call it surfing if you aren\u2019t really standing up and you\u2019re under the board more than on it?) all winter long, Peter\u2019s contagious whooping and laughing inspiring us.<\/p>\n

Surfing is much harder than I imagined. It is, as Alexandra Moen \u201915 points out in our cover story, \u201cBlue Minds<\/a>\u201d, humbling. Of the myriad wonderful things about surfing, the chance to be out on the water in any and all weather is pretty high on the list. Rediscovering that feeling of floating while falling asleep after a day in the waves is up there too.<\/p>\n

In the book, Blue Mind<\/em> (see Lauren Poirier\u2019s piece<\/a>), Wallace J. Nichols asserts that water \u201cprovides the most profound shortcut to happiness.\u201d And he has the science to back it up. The science is important and fascinating, but I don\u2019t need it to know that he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Mentors play an important role for lots of people in their lives and careers. Do you (or did you) have a mentor? Or have you been a mentor to someone else? We\u2019d love to hear your stories. Post your comment below or tell us at urimag@uri.edu<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

The faculty and staff featured in \u201cBlue Minds\u201d feel a magnetic attraction to the ocean, and they respond by spending their free time on the water\u2014many of them are surfers\u2014and by dedicating their work lives to studying, knowing, and protecting the oceans\u2014locally and around the globe.<\/p>\n

The power and pull of the sea isn\u2019t unique to the 溏心vlog免费B站. But we do have something special here. We are positioned\u2014geographically and academically\u2014to connect to the ocean\u2019s power on a daily basis in infinite ways. In doing so, we make ourselves happier, and we deepen our relationship with the sea, helping to ensure its health and survival, and, with it, our own.<\/p>\n

\u2014Barbara Caron, Editor-in-Chief<\/em><\/p>\n

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