What's Your Passion?

Do you have a passion? I have and it's been with me since I can remember. In fact I have several passions.

I have a passion for life. It sounds cliche but I really love living. Each day brings a challenge I didn't have the day before. Sometimes I feel good about the challenge and other times not. What I know is true is that if I stay in the process we call life, I will grow for the better.

I have a passion for all things in the field of theatre. Theatre is Life! Theatre is My Life! I was born with this passion and it only grows when I nurture it, when I take time to acknowledge it. I do and will continue because if I don't, I turn my back on a beautiful and unique gift given especially to me. There will always be others better, so what. I can just be me.

I have a passion to protect the weak. They can't protect themselves. They need to know someone cares. I really do care. If you don't care, don't pretend like you do. You just get in the way. I'll let you in on something, we who care know those who don't.

Yes, you will run into those people and challenges that will try to weaken your will. That's what they are here for. That is their purpose in life. But stand tall, stand strong, stand still, and I promise you that you and your passion will be standing when it's all over.

Have faith in your passion.

Elwell Ferry

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I had the wonderful opportunity to ride the Elwell Ferry yesterday. I didn't know until now exactly what I was riding. It turns out I was aboard a large piece of history that is over 100 years old. The Elwell Ferry is one of the last three cable ferries operating in North Carolina, one of the twenty four in the United States and the only cable ferry on the Cape Fear River. The ferry can only carry two cars at a time. You are allowed to get out of your vehicle while it makes its journey across the river. It's free to ride.

The Russ family started the ferry back in 1905. It was not long before the North Carolina Department of Transportation took ownership of the ferry. Unfortunately, Mr. Walter Russ was the first person to die on the ferry and it was due to an explosion in 1942 that ironically Mr. Russ warned about. A year later another ferry was built.

Fortunately modern technology has built in safety features that prevent other deaths, like the ones of the past, from occurring. For example, we no longer have to worry about cars and trucks slipping out of gear and falling into the river or people pushing over sized cars on the ferry as had been done in the past.

There is no danger, at this time, of a bridge being built to transport people and vehicles across the Cape Fear River. The cost of building a bridge to replace the five minute ride across the river in the cable ferry is too steep to justify.

For now we all can enjoy the nostalgia and convenience the Elwell Ferry gives.

If you have the opportunity to travel to this part of North Carolina, I hope you will visit this piece of history.