Don't Settle

Sunset behind my motorcycle route away from 'The Callanish Stones', stone circle.

Isle of Harris (mountains) and Lewis (plains), same island, in Scotland.

Don't Settle

3/17/11

'The journey is the destination.'

emblazoned on Boulder, Colorado teeshirt

reminds epic nature of life,

each person's opportunity at storytelling

to weave own personal tale

of romance, adventure, redemption, growth,

chapters filled with twist, turns,

small details, huge sweeping landscapes,

mundane struggles, extravagant dreams, visions,

some perseveringly realized, others upended,

all adding to rare mandala

one of kind never repeated

holographic entity that everyone is,

part of some blockbuster movie

keeping audience on seat's edge

where actors play out role

in character until final curtain

creating surprising chemistry in scenes

with others and surrounding environment,

nobody stops halfway through film

and speaks somebody else's lines

wanting something other than 'themselves',

Mickey Mouse isn't King Kong,

Scotland will never be Brazil,

everyone is uniquely different, so

don't settle for 'normal' existence.