"This new global citizenship carries the potential for personal confusion. Third-culture people often experience adjustment and identity struggles in their adopted nation and in their homeland, when they returned. Their passport indicates.....citizenship, but their language, perspective, and style all say something else. The greatest challenge often occurs when they return to what is supposed to be there home country, only to feel out of sync in an unrecognizable alien land." (Off-Road Disciplines. Earl Creaps, 2006, p 164)
"Keep safe and don't let the wackadoodles get to you. They got to me and I suspect I will never be the same again." (Friend,AB) "The farsighted tend to get blindsided by the near sighted." Barry Kolb
"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)
"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)
It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Out of Sync Canadian
I not only get it, I'm living it.....
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