I was chatting with a co-worker last week about my belief that everyone is, in their own way, writing an epic novel of their lives. Do people like Hawkings or Hemingway know that they lead such fascinating lifes? So Perhaps using the epic novel as a model does help develop the story of our lives. I find that most experiences (whatever they are -- life, job, personal) are stories with a series of smaller epics and plots contributing to the masterpiece. On 3/16/2007 I completed the first chapter in this epic (the first of many) in my professional capacity here in Oregon. There is much more to do and many chapters and epics ahead -- but completing this first one feels good. I have not inked a word in my second chapter yet --there are lots of possibiltiies and thoughts brewing and I know where I'd like to take this story. I look at chapter 2 as anything I want to imagine and I know that feeling -- I am oddly right back where I started in June. It is recursive; and maybe Tolkien knew something when he named the first epic "There and Back Again" and I think that's a fitting name for my first chapter in this one.
I was chatting with a co-worker last week about my belief that everyone is, in their own way, writing an epic novel of their lives. Do people like Hawkings or Hemingway know that they lead such fascinating lifes? So Perhaps using the epic novel as a model does help develop the story of our lives. I find that most experiences (whatever they are -- life, job, personal) are stories with a series of smaller epics and plots contributing to the masterpiece. On 3/16/2007 I completed the first chapter in this epic (the first of many) in my professional capacity here in Oregon. There is much more to do and many chapters and epics ahead -- but completing this first one feels good. I have not inked a word in my second chapter yet --there are lots of possibiltiies and thoughts brewing and I know where I'd like to take this story. I look at chapter 2 as anything I want to imagine and I know that feeling -- I am oddly right back where I started in June. It is recursive; and maybe Tolkien knew something when he named the first epic "There and Back Again" and I think that's a fitting name for my first chapter in this one.
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