Let’s Go Adventuring

Word arrived this morning that someone I knew a long time ago has died. When I was small, she lived in our neighbourhood, and she was someone I looked up to because she was SO MUCH older (5 years) and SO MUCH cooler (hair and makeup!) and smart and funny and kind, too.  I liked her a great deal, although our age difference meant we were never in the same school, did the same things, etc.

Anyway, long story short, I remember her as a wonderful person who had this certain golden radiance about her, and when I heard this morning that she is gone, it struck hard. I doubt she even realized how much of an impact she had on me when I was little.

So it got me thinking about the brevity of life and the millions of connections we make with others, some lasting and some fleeting and some more memorable than others, and how this big beautiful world is out there waiting to be explored, and meanwhile, I’m just sitting here like a lump, circling around the cosmos in my desk chair. My hands are much too clean for my liking. I want to be dirty and sweaty and one with the universe. See? Most of the time, my internal monologue is already a metaphysical philosophical circus; this reminder of the transience of life as we progressively march towards entropy has just thrown petrol on the flames.

who am I? why am I here? how do we connect? are we one soul or many or none at all? are we the consciousness of the cosmos, or just a quirk of biology, or a cruel joke by an unfeeling god?

I’ve been listening & reading too much of Alan Moore, perhaps. Can one have too much Alan Moore? I didn’t think it possible.

So it’s time to get my hands dirty, to get sweaty, to embrace adventure. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but this year, I’m not working in an office or at a desk, and my schedule is what I make it. For the first time in my life, I feel like I’m steering my own ship, and so far, I haven’t crashed into any shoals – yay!  This means our family has become remarkably portable, and I’m so grateful to have the freedom to move around the surface of the Earth during my time of exploration. LET’S GO!!!