A while ago, I started to hike up a mountain, enjoying the scenery, and connecting with myself and the things around me. Most days were beautiful, and on the very rare occasion, I would pause and think “isn’t this just perfect?” There were days of light rain, fog, and an occasional thunderstorm. Some days, I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘self-exploration’
This Thing We’re Doing
Posted: 5th March 2012 by ! in First Times, Growth, Lightbulb MomentsTags: Eckhart, emotion, exciting, fear, gut feeling, nervousness, new, self-awareness, self-exploration, subdrop, trust
Photo Credit: Fr. Frank Pavone Unless you are directly involved, this post will make much more sense after I post a few other ones. this is just what has been running through my mind lately. Yesterday, I felt the largest drop in a very long time. It wasn’t the typical “subdrop” that I would normally [...]
Rumschpringe – One Month of Freedom
Posted: 27th July 2010 by ! in Growth, Kink in a Vanilla World, Sebastian and KatjaTags: emotion, fear, Katja, new, rules, Sebastian, self-awareness, self-exploration, vulnerable
Photo Credit: Logistics Monster Around the age of sixteen, some Amish participate in what is called Rumschpringe. It is a period in time in which they go out into the modern world and “rebel” in a sense, against the beliefs with which they grew up. At the end of this period, the young Amish man [...]