Acts of Surrender

I said I wanted open spaces now I'm tradin' them in
Some things are better found within
My heart is the only open space I need to live in
~ Erich "Sky" Lenk

It's October 1995 and I'm celebrating my 41st birthday in quiet meditation in my rural Nova Scotia apartment. As so often has happened in recent years, another birthday has heralded another major life change. It was on my 40th birthday, for example, that I drove off the Princess of Acadia ferry from New Brunswick to launch a new life in Nova ...