PEP TALK FOR A NEWBIE

SHE DROVE IN FROM SOMEWHERE!
IS FRESH ON THE ROAD!

LIVES COMFORTABLY IN THAT VAN---which she engineered herself.

Would be a good story in itself--but I didn't take picts.

One of those rare individuals who knows how to communicate. (to speak in sentences--not paragraphs--and to listen)

Took her to the flea market--she created a sensation with her dancing. (note that the crowd 

backed off --giving her room.  How many people do you know with the boldness to spontaneously dance before a large crowd.  I estimate 200.)

... took her to a political rally--here's me pushing for education.....

and her for women's rights.

....facilitated a trip down the Colorado--

....and to Yuma Territorial Prison....

...and to Yuma's Mardi Gras.

RANDY PHILOSOPHIZES:  SHE NEEDED NO PEP TALK---but I gave one anyway--saluting her ALIVENESS, her careful preparation for road life and her extraordinary WILL in pushing through the fears and hesitations that kill the dreams of so many would-be adventurers.

(" the bright hue of resolution is sicklied o'er by the pale cast of thought and doth lose the name of action--Shakespeare)

Once comfortably on the road, however, the major challenge to us mobile people is how to generate MEANING.  (a feeling of aliveness and purposefulness )

Meaning  is not "discovered"---it is generated

AND HERE IS HOW: click here

SHE WAS TERRIFIC--- SWOOSHED INTO AND OUT OF MY LIFE IN A MATTER OF DAYS--MOBILE PEOPLE ARE LIKE THAT--- SWOOSHERS--WHAT A DELIGHT--WHAT A WAY TO LIVE!