Fire In The Belly-A New Route To Authenticity
Your Story Matters
Where your wishbone becomes your backbone — a field note on autobiography, decision, luck, love, dogs, and the strange geography of becoming yourself.
There are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. Our lives are filled with digital soundtracks and fleeting sound bites, but the story they tell belongs to someone else. What is deeply personal is universal, yet what gives our lives meaning and gravitas is our own Autobiography.
Telling our own story is not something that we’re taught how to do. If we learn how to mine our own experience, we can find answers to the great questions of life. There are, however, two questions a man must ask himself: “Where am I going?” and “Who will go with me?” If you ever get these questions in the wrong order, you are in trouble.
Love Me, Love My Dog
Most of the time, we remain outside the depths of our own existence. That is the distinction between living through personal narrative and embracing life as myth.
The Remote Island Dispatch
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Images from the edge of the map: Fair Isle, Skyelark, story, solitude, and the strange courage of becoming autobiographical.
