Wonderful! The adventure so tangible and ecstatic! I love that you used that word to describe the revelatory awakening—adventure—as if the universe is always prepared to lead us along, if only we tune in to listen and read the map. Such a beautiful ending, and how lovely that an old childhood doc gets to be part of Paul’s (your!) final and ever-renewing confirmation.
So glad you enjoyed Kimberly. You have an uncanny way of honing in on the perfect word or symbol that holds the entire story within. "Adventure" from the latin advenire meaning "to come to" or "arrive." Ironically or perhaps fittingly in English it's come to mean to go out and explore the unknown.
“…he wasn’t writing anything—the whole of creation was already being written all around him. And it was unfathomably beautiful.”
A brilliant ending!
“The one in your own eyes right now.”
I suspect there were pieces of you scattered throughout. Maybe your recipe was a mixture of fiction with a side order of fact, but it was ever so subtle that I put the thought aside in a box entitled possibilities. I searched for clues (yes, I tend to do that to become more involved in the story, or when I’m left with a big question mark to solve). 11:11, the information I found brought your writing to a whole new level that I most likely would have missed if I didn’t go snooping.
I ‘closed the cover’ of your book with a big smile. And this little verse came to mind.
Robert Frost seems to be my go to poet, always finding the words and metaphors in his poems, when my own words are not enough. ( He is also a fellow Vermonter, so I am a bit partial);
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost~The Road Not Taken
I sincerely hope that the path you found, or found you ,that is, if you story leans towards truth, will continue to contain a lifetime of unexpected wonders .
(To be continued on D/M. Now you have to suffer my literal connection).
Wonderful! The adventure so tangible and ecstatic! I love that you used that word to describe the revelatory awakening—adventure—as if the universe is always prepared to lead us along, if only we tune in to listen and read the map. Such a beautiful ending, and how lovely that an old childhood doc gets to be part of Paul’s (your!) final and ever-renewing confirmation.
So glad you enjoyed Kimberly. You have an uncanny way of honing in on the perfect word or symbol that holds the entire story within. "Adventure" from the latin advenire meaning "to come to" or "arrive." Ironically or perhaps fittingly in English it's come to mean to go out and explore the unknown.
Oh!!! That’s fabulous. Adventure = arrival. Thank you for this wonderful teaching.
A phrase I learned during vision quest, 25 years ago, springs to mind.
»The ceremony is over, the next one is about to begin.«
The whole of creation already written. A powerful realisation to end with.
Yes! I've been thinking about how fitting it is that this "ending" happened to fall on the equinox.
“…he wasn’t writing anything—the whole of creation was already being written all around him. And it was unfathomably beautiful.”
A brilliant ending!
“The one in your own eyes right now.”
I suspect there were pieces of you scattered throughout. Maybe your recipe was a mixture of fiction with a side order of fact, but it was ever so subtle that I put the thought aside in a box entitled possibilities. I searched for clues (yes, I tend to do that to become more involved in the story, or when I’m left with a big question mark to solve). 11:11, the information I found brought your writing to a whole new level that I most likely would have missed if I didn’t go snooping.
I ‘closed the cover’ of your book with a big smile. And this little verse came to mind.
Robert Frost seems to be my go to poet, always finding the words and metaphors in his poems, when my own words are not enough. ( He is also a fellow Vermonter, so I am a bit partial);
“I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost~The Road Not Taken
I sincerely hope that the path you found, or found you ,that is, if you story leans towards truth, will continue to contain a lifetime of unexpected wonders .
(To be continued on D/M. Now you have to suffer my literal connection).