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...and as they sprouted, my life, too, began to GROW again!

At forty-two, weary of the working world and its continual postponement of living, I took the time for an open-ended cross-country bicycle adventure, and for the first time, I seriously considered the idea of a life not centered on "getting ahead."
At forty-four, unable to continue with the workaday pattern of my life, I broke ranks completely, opting for the world of an economic outsider and the uncommon, unstructured adventure of just taking life as it comes, working with whatever it brings.
At forty-six, moving beyond the habits and sureties of convention, I began to see evidence that reality is not a clear and obvious "just what it is" thing, common to all, but more like a reflection of what we think it is. How this can be, I do not know, and leave such concerns to those who root around in philosophy. I can tell you, however, that this recognition became my guide, in the re-shaping of my world.

The implications of such a radical insight are vast, and hardly conceivable from where most of us are stuck. I moved out along the trail it opened for me, into a magical journey of fulfillment and discovery that took me through one fascinating adventure after another -- each expanding the vision, each elaborating the proof of a personalized reality in different ways.

But this is not the place for further detail. The expanse of my writing awaits you for that -- I mean only to offer, here, an invitational introduction, which has largely been taken care of.

You have an option, now, either a direct track to the staging area, from the link below, or -- if you'd rather finish with these preliminaries, there is a side-track detour that will take you to my dedication and anniversary page, and then to the staging area.

The direct track moves on to an outline of the site's organizational structure -- what it contains, and the several framework options you have for exploring it. Save your bookmarking for that next portion, for it constitutes an all-purpose
Staging Area

...alternatively, you can take

The side-track -- a brief detour for the dedication of the site, which is also the anniversary marker: a page that I shall return to every year at this April time, for an annual notice that I am still around, maintaining the premises and continuing to add material to it.

The Detour