In The Garden Living an RPG Life

Finally settled on the title of the blog.  What happened?  Well, I finally decided who I am and how I want to present myself in the rest of this lifetime.  Yeah, the knitting is still important to me.  It’s part of how I think on some days.  It’s a tool, a grounding agent.  And it’s  a symbolic reference to story.

As for Living an RPG Life… Role playing games are another symbolic reference.  They represent life itself.  To live my life as an RPG, a role playing game, is to acknowledge the features of the game being active in my ordinary day.  In this moment, I can’t think of anything that relates.  That is not to say that in the next moment something won’t manifest.

This is a kind of coming out for me, a commitment to telling stories. The stories I am committing to tell are not necessarily ones I make up.   Some of the stories I will be telling are true. They might sound made up, though.  That’s because they come from focusing on the world differently.  I am thinking of Douglas Adams and his description of moving into Valhalla in The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul.  I don’t intend to go that far.  But the feeling of turning to look at the side of a molecule, and telling what I see there… That’s the feeling.

I used to think I would get lost if I did that.  If I let myself really look and not just close my eyes and guess at what I was experiencing.  I found a blog, Shift Your Spirits, whose author, Slade Roberson, seems to have been where I have wanted to go and writes to tell that it’s ok.  It’s not so scary and there are ways of not becoming lost.

I heard Bill Plotkin on KVMR.org the other day and followed him to his website.  He had a similar tale and provided a compass.  Between those two explorers and the itinerary that Serge Kahili King provided me that long time ago in Urban Shaman, I finally feel that I can take off.

Call this post, handing out a key to the house-sitter.

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