"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).

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Few Stay Behind

Peace Corps worker, Moritz Thomsen, wrote this book about his later life in Ecuador. Here is a comment made about this amazingly unique man.
"........he is rare in having stayed on, and twenty odd years later he is still in Ecuador, still committed to the place and the people...... and still poor. He's is the man-there are not many in the world- who stayed behind. Americans seldom do. You meet the odd German, the tetchy Englishman, the panicky Hindu, the refugee Pole, or whoever; but seldom do you see the cultured, civilized, widely read American in the Third-World boondocks." (The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Rivers. Pg 9)
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