Come Sail Away
Come sail away Howard A. Rockman JCI Insight. 2019;4(15):e131371. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.131371. Editorial I’m sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea ’Cause I’ve got to be free, free to face the life that’s ahead of me On board I’m the captain, so climb aboard We’ll search for tomorrow on every shore And I’ll try, oh Lord, I’ll try to carry on “Come Sail Away,” a song by Dennis De Young of the rock group Styx, uses sailing as a metaphor for achieving one’s dreams by embarking on a journey into the unknown. The first verse, quoted above (video at https://youtu.be/e5MAg_yWsq8), aptly captures the emotional excitement as well as the trepidation that I felt when in January 2016 we launched JCI Insight into uncharted waters. I, along with a small group of ASCI staff, conceived the idea of starting a new ASCI journal in 2014, two years into my tenure as JCI Editor. While the concept of a “daughter” journal was not new in scientific publishing, it was a radical idea for the ASCI, whose membership comprises individuals spanning a wide spectrum of academic life — from young, newly elected members on a steep trajectory of scientific achievement to Senior and Emeritus members, many of whom have been elected to the National Academies of Medicine and Sciences and some of whom are Nobel laureates. As one might imagine with such a […] Find the latest version: https://jci.me/131371/pdf EDITORIAL Come sail away I’m sailing away, set an open course for the virgin sea ’Cause I’ve got to be free, free to face the life that’s ahead of me On board I’m the captain, so climb aboard We’ll search for tomorrow on every shore And I’ll try, oh Lord, I’ll try to carry on “Come Sail Away,” a song by Dennis De Young of the rock group Styx, uses sailing as a metaphor for achieving one’s dreams by embarking on a journey into the unknown.
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