Today I had lunch with my friend Pat, and his wife Connie. Two of the best humans ever. And two people that are inspirational in a lot of ways. I am lucky in that way, I find that inspiration often, and everywhere. I am truly blessed in that manner. I could make a list of people who have meant everything to me, and have made my life better for being in it. But, I fear that list would be everyone I have ever met. You have all mattered so much to me.
I started to take a look at my daily life with this blogging project, and then thought about some of the things that have moved me, and I am failing even myself. My interests are pedestrian, and somehow I dislike the things that I am passionate about. I have lost the desire or rather, I have lost the pursuit of adventure. My daily life is tame, my nightlife is tame, and all the rest. It has been years since someone punched me, or I have loved passionately, or even been open to being punched or loved. I know that has to change. But, like everything else, I have to reclaim the idea on my own.
I have to have adventures. I have to find that, I have to be awake for more ours. I have to connect to it.
To inspire me I have taken on a reading list of adventure books. Hopefully I can get them all done by April 1. And then I can start spring with a vengeance.
so, here they are…and I got them all at Et Al’s in Wausau.
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner
Stanley by Tim Jeal
Shackleton by Roland Huntford
Tenzing: Hero of Everest by Ed Douglas
Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare
The Last Season by Eric Blehm
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurt by Eric Blehm
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen
The Wildest Dream by Peter and Leni Gillamn
I hope these books move me. I hope I can become more like my friend Andrew Wichman. I want to see the world again.