Want to make a change? Use Slow, Steady Pressure

Emily Kingsley
5 min readJul 19, 2019

When I was in my twenties, I spent several years working and living on sailboats. Even though I didn’t make a lot of money, the lessons I learned and experiences I had have proven to be valuable time after time in the decade or so since I moved ashore.

Photo by Nicole Chen on Unsplash

When I worked on these boats, one of the tasks that was often assigned to me was to fit a fender in between a boat and a dock. A…

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Emily Kingsley

Always polishing the flip side of the coin. Live updates from the middle class. e.kingsleywhalen@gmail.com. She/her.