New Adventure

On Saturday, July 31st, I made the long haul from Boynton Beach, FL to Surfside Beach, SC, a 629-mile drive, what should be a nine hour, 23 minute drive through Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. The night before this trip I started looking for a stopover location that would break the trip into two days, but I decided to bite the bullet and get the drive over with in one day. 

As I pulled onto I95 North from Boynton Beach, I began listening to the second half of Untamed by Glennon Doyle. For as much hype as this book got, I was unimpressed. I actually started it in mid-June as I began packing up my house in Illinois and I just never wanted to even finish it. Facing the long drive, I thought ... what the heck?! Why not. 

I think maybe if you've never thought about your place in the world as a woman, or about your spirituality, or belief systems, maybe her content might be eye-opening for you. But it seemed pretentious to me. Perhaps even more so because she was reading her own book. I felt like her inflection was trying to make things sounds revelatory, but they just were not. Enough said.

Rounding out the rest of my day, I pulled up Caroline Myss' Anatomy of the Spirit. This one had been on my reading list for such a long time, I didn't even remember where I had heard about it or what I had heard about it that caused me to add it to the list. I will say don't think the Audible file that came up was a reading of the book. It sounded like she was giving a talk to people about the book and it was only about two hours in length. It was fascinating! 

It was far more religious than I expected. Although she starts out talking about how she set out to disprove the connection to religion, she ends up tying the seven chakras to the seven Christian sacraments and Judaism's tree of life. All of the notes I took related to my own personal healing, so I won't share them here, but if you're working on anything at all in your life, I suggest you check it out to facilitate your own healing. The one thing I'll share is that she said living in the present moment and seeking your truth pulsates in the crown chakra. Well if that isn't appropriate for my journey, I don't know what is.

It wasn't until about 4:30pm that I abandoned I95 (shortly after Caroline was talking about integrity and endurance and I was stuck in slow-moving traffic). I crossed so many bridges this day, I lost track of how many and what they were called. It's like this trip is going to shake this fear out of me if it is the last thing it does! I rolled into the hotel around 7:30pm and began to settle in for the night with Door Dash delivery and a beer from the bar. A new adventure would begin again shortly

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