Write your own adventure.....

“Then, one day, when you least expect it,

 the great adventure finds you.”

The Men Who Stare at Goats  

Ewan Mcgregor

I've been absent for some of this month....
never fear it's not that I wanted to neglect my readers but

Between the off-color birthday celebrations and

my unwelcome friend called "depression", I've not had the energy nor the creative spark to write or engage or participate in life anymore than I have too---which means I haven't blogged much and so as off color daughter would say....sorry, sorry, sorry for my absence....

But I'm back tonight....

so let's get on with an adventure in words.....

Life is one big

on-going story,

written each day by contributors of all walks of life,

from and by and because of

all we encounter.

Sometimes

without even knowing it,

we become so absorbed in the tale of others

the story put in front of us on the TV,

the

gossip of the neighbor across the street,

that

we forget to

forget to live our own tale and just become a character used in someone Else's story book.

From the onset of our first breath,

we are carried into the continuation of another's tale,

experiences,

cultural beliefs,

religious bone infusions,

and

parental expectations

all rolled up in one,

it all
begins our saga
and

plays an intrinsic part in how the rest of the story will be played out...

we become comfortable

with

what others have written for us,

what they have projected for us to be

and

so we follow the route on the map

without veering from the path

laid out for us to walk.

After a bit,

if we are aware,

we are awakened

to

the possibility

of

the world,

carnivals along the way

attract us with their lights and smells,

and

we get a hint of what life

invites us to experience.  It is a bit scary to venture off---but oh...my it is so worth it once the adventure of our own tale begins.

One day

if we are lucky enough

to trod down the unbeaten

road less taken,

dust rises and falls,

leaves crunch under our feet,

and

if we dare to keep walking,

believe in the adventure that invites us forward

one

day

when we least expect

we come to a place in the road

that offers us a choice..

a choice to turn around

head back to where we started

until we hit the familiar once again,

or

we can trust in the invitation

to experience

a unexpected

unknown

adventure

where we are invited to cross over

rushing water,

and head into

the lush forest

adventure that will take us to somewhere we have never been.

Today...

Today

I choose the unknown

and

enter an adventure on a clean page

where I will write my own tale.....
and
you dear readers are privy to the adventure.

May each of you

have the courage to

trod down a path less taken

and

let adventure

meet you where ever you are.

I double dog dare you....

Happy Saturday
and
Hugs......