Now that I am retired and occasionally going on multi-day adventures, I have created this blog page to keep my family and friends informed about how my adventures are going. I’ll keep them ordered with the newest blogs on top, so you can follow them chronologically if you wish.
My decision to take the effort to create the blog was made when I read one of my daily Richard Rohr meditation emails. In his 2/27/24 email he talkes about the “hero’s journey”. Here is a portion of his message;
The hero’s journey is a key myth that keeps repeating in different cultures.
The hero must leave home or business as usual. They have to leave what feels like sufficiency or enoughness. There is a sense of necessity in discovering the bigger world. More often than not, we’re taken there by some circumstance, shipwreck, accident, death, or suffering of some sort. That’s called the departure. The hero has to lose or walk away from their sense of order and enter some kind of disorder.
Then there’s the encounter. After the hero leaves, they have to experience something bigger, something better, something that is more real and more demanding of their real energies. Of course, that takes different forms.
Surprisingly, the third stage of the hero’s journey is the return. The hero’s journey is not to just keep going to new places, we have to return to where we started and know it in a new way and do life in a new way.
My goal with these blogs is to not only convey the details and some pictures from my adventures but to also provide some insights as to what I’m contemplating about during the journey and how the adventure is changing my paradigms and beliefs.
Here is a list of the blogs on my site
Looking forward to your comments, thoughts and questions as you read these. Enjoy!