Helen Keller famously wrote, "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.”
Dannnnng, Helen! Why you gotta be so black-and-white?!
As someone who has spent 20 years pursuing passion and calling rather than money or security, I have earned my share of "daring adventure" stripes. But rather than landing me on some sun-lit mountaintop, striking a triumphant pose while the wind whips fiercely through my hair, my own daring adventures -- in spite of my best efforts -- led me to a place of frustration, debt, burn-out, and profound ambiguity.
This site is dedicated to navigating the "dot-dot-dot": that nether-region between daring to venture in the direction(s) of what you feel to be your purpose, and finding a sustainable way to live. Because the reality is, we humans - with few exceptions - are not designed to survive year after year of plunging headlong toward our dreams (i.e., we have our limits), and, what's more, doing so (spoiler alert!...) doesn't always pay the bills.
Check out my Blawwwg page for dispatches from a life spent "living the questions," in the words of poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who sagely advised,
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”