Knotty rope lettering is a popular design and we use a special technique to spell out entire words like “Bud” in Budski, but here just a square knot as the letter O works its magic.
Boat lettering is often obscured by a dinghy on the transom sitting up on its davits and lettering port and starboard on the house is a great additional way to display your graphic. Traditionally, many cabins had running lights and name boards, so this isn’t a new idea. It makes a lot of sense, especially back at the marina or say in the Ballard Locks when you’re two feet from your neighbor. All these look great, the problem is in picking the favorite for me. Which one do you like best? I use a cool photoshop technique to create rope lettering ideas sometimes.
A little background on this particular boat name: In Buddhist thought, life mirrors a river’s flow – a sequence of distinct moments creating an illusion of continuity. This stream of experiences moves from cause to effect, giving the impression of a unified journey. However, like a river that’s never the same twice, life constantly changes. The river we see now differs from yesterday’s and tomorrow’s. Similarly, our existence transforms moment by moment. Each instant brings a new state of being, imperceptibly different from the last. This teaching highlights life’s impermanence and fluidity. It suggests we’re not fixed entities, but rather an ongoing process of change, much like the ever-flowing waters of a river. This perspective challenges our notion of a stable self and encourages us to embrace the dynamic nature of existence.
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
– Steven Wright
Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.
– Don Shula
In America, the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
– Oscar Wilde
Impermanence, also called Anicca or Anitya, is one of the essential doctrines and a part of three marks of existence in Buddhism. The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is “transient, evanescent, inconstant”.
Early Buddhism dealt with the problem of impermanence in a very rationale manner. This concept is known as anicca in Buddhism, according to which, impermanence is an undeniable and inescapable fact of human existence from which nothing that belongs to this earth is ever free.
Buddhism declares that there are five processes on which no human being has control and which none can ever change. These five processes are namely, the process of growing old, of not falling sick, of dying, of decay of things that are perishable and of the passing away of that which is liable to pass. Buddhism however suggests that escape from these is possible and it’s through Nirvana.
