Find the Wind

Adventure is no stranger to Jeanette Pickering. She lives by the adage that ＂Happiness is your state of mind and the way you pursue that state of mind.＂ She agrees with Eric Weiner, the author of the ＂Geography of the Bliss＂, when he states that how we pursue the goal of happiness matters at least as much, perhaps more, that the goal itself. Jeanette spent her first seventy years finding happiness in the adventures of a delightful childhood and the pleasures of being a wife and mother of four also adventuresome children. Following the death of her husband of forty-seven years, she chose to see what the world had to offer. She visited Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe. On a cruise through the Caribbean Islands, she chose to take a side trip to snorkel the waters around the island of St. Thomas. That experience opened up the opportunity for a new life. Enjoy her accounting of her first year of sailing through the Caribbean waters on a small twenty-eight foot sloop with a sailor who was to become her Captain, both in sailing and in her life as she knew it then. ＂Pickering’s love for life and adventure makes me wonder what the rest of us are missing - and why. ’Find the Wind’ is more than a good story; it’s a lesson on how to really live.＂ KEN YORK, Assistand Editor of the Lebanon Daily Record ＂Jeanette, with all of her adventures, provides a role model for all the ’ageing’ women who are still young at heart.＂ LAURA VALENTI, Author of ’Between the Star and the Cross’, a two part series ＂Find the Wind’ is a fun, charming and personal book. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Jeanette’s views of the Caribbean as my mind traveled with her on this adventurous journey.＂ GINGER CLARK, Owner of the Lebanon Book Store Jeanette Pickering has always been an adventurous person. Having been raised in a small rural community and given the freedom of earlier times to explore her world, small though it may have been, prepared her for the enjoyment she would find in the larger world of her future. She and her husband of forty-seven years raised their children over the funeral home that they owned and operated most of her life. After his death, Jeanette left grief and chose to see what else this world had to offer. She visited Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe. She backpacked through the U. S. with her brother, enjoying the western mountains and deserts. At the age of seventy, on a trip to the Caribbean, she met and married a sailor. They sailed those waters in a small twenty-eight foot sloop for nearly eight years. Jeanette authored a weekly column in her local newspaper, telling stories of those adventures.