On occasion, the spirited man will feel the need to bug out to leave the situation not to escape no, but for a break at times the spirited man has had it. Perhaps he cannot afford it, but he feels he'll die if he doesn't so he goes anyway. Perhaps it is a woman, a lover who has inspired the bug out. Perhaps it is two women, two lovers, perhaps three, perhaps all of them.

What can i do anything? Perhaps the spirited man has been unfair. Perhaps he needs solitude for a while. Perhaps he needs a break from lovers. The spirited man seeks counsel counsel from a spirited woman.

This particular spirited woman is not a lover. This particular spirited woman is a friend, an old friend from far away an adventure a sailor twice around the world. Proximity to this particular spirited woman gives this particular spirited man, insights and reflection gives him perspective. He will carry this perspective, these insights, all through mexico.

In this year of no winter, he will be an adventurer in this land of strangers in truck on motorcycle in mountains. In water he will think about women in mexico, with his books and his music and his paper and his solitude. This spirited man will learn. Two things has learned.

Two things learned two things in this year of no winter. First, he has learned that his entire concept of lovers has been wrong before his bug out. He had unbeknownst to himself seen lovers as drugs as medicine to treat his ales and his chemicals to bring him joy. He has learned that perceiving women as drugs has caused harm.

He has learned that women are not drugs. The second thing he has learned well not learned but understood finally, was the meaning of the words of another spirited man, the words of a poet. He finally understands what the poet meant and the poet said this. The poet said that women are the other half of the sky.

Women are the other half of the sky. This the spirited man, has come to understand alone. During the year of no winter, you.