Saturday, September 8, 2012

outer and/or inner journey?

Which was the more life-changing and lasting journey this summer -- the outer or the inner?
My trip to China for 3 difficult weeks...with that glimpse of Mao in his anti-Feng-shui Memorial? the crowds of the forbidden in the Forbidden City? thoughts on the politics of the aesthetics of decor in the Great Hall of the People? my visit to Confucius' home? that day's ordeal to reach the top of desecrated sacred Mt Tai? ...
My soon -- in our jet-age -- enduring again, with an attempted smile, the thoughtless mental state in the Heart of Dixie? the nervous excitement on "hiking out" on one pontoon for those high wind moments on my Hobie Wave? the emergency beaching of the boat, in fear, as lightning struck too near? the great fried crab claws?...
Or the insights and comprehensions of our human story via reading through When China Rules the World, The Idea of the West, The Adventurer -- The Fate of Adventure in the Western World, Inventing Europe, et al?

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