Paul and I are taking off for a road trip. This time we’re doing it differently.
We’re taking Aggie, our dog, and making a lot of st
ops along the way. We’re on an adventure, not just a trip. We’ve planned it so there are lots of places to walk: parks, beaches and woodlands. We’ll visit historic sites and stay at all sorts of places: country inns, motels and a cottage we’ve rented for a couple days. As I do my work with the Teachers, I understand how important getting outside really is. I understand how important varying my point of view is. I recently purchased my first smartphone with good quality cameras so that I could record some of the sights that inspire me. I plan to share these with you when I can. I know you have other things to do than watch one more video, but I’d like to include some of the Teachers inspirational words at the same time. Maybe this will get YOU going, too.
Perhaps when you travel you will take some words of the Teachers along with you, either snippets from this blog or from the books, and use them to uplift your experience even further. Now there’s a thought to ponder: getting even more excited about your experiences! The Teachers let us know that we can amplify or ‘magnify’ everything we do. We just completed a book about that: Magnitude: Varying Our Degree of Learning. The essence of it is to understand more about life, more about who we are, and to mine for deeper understanding. The book does most of the mining for us, initially, and then we can work more deeply on our own. You could say it takes us on a mining adventure and then leaves us happily exploring a bit more. But we’re not really on our own. They are always there, helping and answering questions along the way.
My road trip is just that … a chance to look around me and see even more, if I have the eyes to see, as the Teachers say. So I will go out and look. It’s just that simple. We’ll load up the car but leave plenty of room for adventure. – Deborah