that have made me what I am and kept me focused , structured, and moving forward to the future and toward unexpected epiphanies.
This morning I retrieved my very rare signed book by Virginia Woolf (Street Haunting) and roamed through its 35 pages, revisiting what she had been inspired to write some 91 years ago, uniquely having the book published in San Francisco–her only exclusively American publication with her purple-inked signature.
A winter ramble through London streets memorably encountering a young woman dwarf trying on shoes, and an old couple, owners of a shop where she finally found the pencil she had set out to find. Mission accomplished and the feel of adventure from something so personal and meandering.
Looking back, I would have to concur that my life, too, has been one long, continuous meander in search of excitement, adventure, insight, and, ultimately, meaning and purpose within the random transitoriness and ephemerality of one ever-changing relatively brief life. “Brief candles” as both Aldous Huxley and the UK pop group The Zombies both, ironically and coincidentally, described it.
(our former Mill Woods family doctor, Paul Arnold, used to play bass with The Zombies originally, but left them seeking job security in medicine and Canada)