First picture is Key West–the 2nd somewhere in Ireland—so very different from each other and yet part of two of the adventures that one person enjoyed. The mermaid and the Virgin—
but did you know that here’s a church in Cornwall–that I hope to see in June— that has a mermaid on the pew end.
The church is in Zennor—how appropriate that this Z town is set in a hollow at Land’s End–Penwith (means furthest extremity in Cornish) Peninsula.
I first heard about it in the book: The Mermaid’s Chair http://www.amazon.com/The-Mermaid-Chair-Monk-Kidd/dp/0143036696 by Sue Monk Kidd a love story (Jessie loves Hugh, but once on the island, she finds herself drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk about to take his final vows. Amid a rich community of unforgettable island women and the exotic beauty of marshlands, tidal creeks, and majestic egrets, Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it), which takes place in South Carolina and involves a copy of the chair….Needless to say a saint who reportedly was originally a Mermaid is to me worth an adventure….so sign up so you can get notice of my entries and I’ll hope to have some personal pictures and details on Zennor and the Mermaid Saint in June.
I never ‘worry’ about action, but only about inaction.
Churchill, 1940s (cited in Langworth, Churchill: In His Own Words)
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Your adventure can be anything or everything…but the definition is that it must be physically real—something you do….living in a computer generated castle and fighting evil computer generated monsters DOES NOT COUNT.
Not that that kind of adventure won’t make it when you’re snowed in somewhere in Michigan, or flooded out in Texas—but do not become addicted, the games replace life and become as seriously damaging to you and your children as do the more obvious drugs….they’re just not illegal and for the most part—except on this blog—socially acceptable.
I love to be “creative” and so I make my house into a bizarre nightmare scape for Halloween–then I invite others in to see it and tour it and enjoy it…and for a little while it becomes a holiday adventure for many men, women and children. And that adventure is a bit different for all of us involved.
ADVENTURES ARE ABOUT THE UNPLANNED THAT POPS UP WHEN YOU’RE LEAST EXPECTING IT.
This townhouse was an adventure plus for a weekend in Chicago….seems we had a business meeting there and we decided to come a few days early and just explore the city. On one of our walks from one place to another we came upon this home with vines growing about it and along the steps–the pine wreaths on the door were long past any resemblance to green and we spent a bit of time wandering about looking at this out take from an urban spooktacular.
“I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” –The Incredibles
Take things a step further—and no you don’t have to risk your life to make it an adventure–take this–Yes that is me and yes those stones are exactly what you think they are—I had been to Stonehenge a few times before and was impressed but left wanting and then I found a way to get to spend some time in the circle—legally and at no more coat than a normal ticket—just a lot earlier–so the four of us and one guard spent an hour inside the stone circle and though I wasn’t able to go to 18th c Scotland and find a hot Scot….I still had a a wonderful adventure that so few have done in the recent past.
“Adventure is out there!” –Up
Is the adventure better in a tripped out ride like this one–for some people possibly…for others the ride’s the thing and all else is just a bit of sauce or was that gravy? People who know me have accused me of over-planning my adventures…but once they go with me on one they generally change their minds—knowing what’s there and picking a particular area doesn’t mean that we can’t and we are in fact more likely to wander off to see something that strikes our eyes–like a kitten with a room full of dangling, feathery toys….we may have our favorite, but that in no way limits our play with the others, nor does it restrict us to one favorite—-a true adventure has many–favorites, destinations, activities that give them happiness, makes them addictive, all of which encourages us to adventure-on.
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
Sherlock Holmes Quote
-The Hound of the Baskervilles
Chapter 3: “The Problem
ADVENTURE CAN BE FOUND IN PLACES NOT KNOWN FOR THAT COMMODITY: THE KEY WEST CEMETERY CASE IN POINT
The Key West Cemetery has the mandatory grave stones—but theirs tend to be like the city they’re in at least A BIT ODD with quotes like:
“I told you I was sick”
or
#1 Fan of ….
There’s huge lizards (not native but not apparently a permanent addition) and Toy cars setting on top of some of the stones.
There are deers buried, here, family dogs–and one gravestone includes a statue of a naked lady whom legends says the man who’s grave it is–bought it at a yard sale and his wife who hated it saw a place to get rid of (and maybe even save a bit of money) when he died and she had it put on his grave.
And buried somewhere so she couldn’t be found again is a young woman who was taken from her crypt and put in residence with an obcessive x-ray technician–who called himself count and who lived and loved with the body, till someone finally noticed all the vanilla he was buying (for the stench of decomposing flesh). And it was then that they discovered Key West had no law against living with a corpse.
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn’t indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn’t detect.
MARK TWAIN, Joan of Arc
and you don’t have to be a sweet young thing to find adventure out —-there—this me has become a much older me—but that older me is still ready, willing and able to have those adventures…so what about you?
There’s a dark side to everything. Prince
May he rest in peace—Just heard Prince has gone on to other Adventures not of this earth…at 57, no cause listed yet–Alas fair Prince….
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“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”
-Alan Cohen. *American author best known for “Chicken Soup for the Soul)
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