AOM Meditations: 101618

Rice Threshing by Thomas Hart Benton

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“I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.” 

~Nigel Davis

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“Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?” 

~Richard Aldington

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“Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.” 

~Bob Goff

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“To err is to wander 

And wandering 

Is the way we discover the world 

And lost in thought

Is the way we discover ourselves. 

Being right might be gratifying 

But in the end it is static - a mere statement. 

Being wrong is hard and humbling 

And sometimes even dangerous 

But in the end it is a journey and a story. 

Who really wants to stay at home and be right 

When you can don your armor,

Spring up on your steed,

And go forth to explore the world .

True 

You might get lost along the way,

Get stranded in a swamp,

Have a scare at the edge of a cliff.

Thieves might steal your gold,

Brigands might imprison you in a cave,

Sorcerers might turn you into a toad.

But what of what?

To fuck up is to find adventure: 

It is in the spirit that this book is written.”

~Kathryn Schulz

(Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error)