PRIMARY LENS
⛵ Sailing & the North Atlantic
Parts of a sailboat, points of sail, tides and currents, navigation with charts, compass, and dead reckoning, the VHF radio, reading weather, storms and giant rogue waves, and the great Atlantic crossing.
SUPPORTING
💡 Grief, Memory & Found Family
How the mind buries painful memory and later integrates it, adoption and the family we find, and how telling stories — like Bompie’s tales — helps us process loss.
SUPPORTING
🌊 The Sea as Wound and Healer
The ocean is both the danger that shapes Sophie’s fear and the passage that carries her toward truth and belonging — the outward voyage mirroring an inward one.
