fellow questers…

“The way of life is wonderful; it is by abandonment” (Ralph Waldo Emerson “Circles”)

“I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition” (Ralph Waldo Emerson “Experience”)

as some of you know… ralph waldo emerson… has had… and continues to have a major influence on my thinking and living… during my early thirties… i spent quite a few hours with ralph waldo… so many that i decided… what the heck… why not do your dissertation on emerson… need to pick somebody… his mind is fire… god knows my mind needed a spark…

emerson speaks to much of the conceptual framework behind ‘the wild self’… over time… i will be sharing you various audio essays that i wrote and narrated… related to ralph waldo emerson… and will be tying it into how it relates to ‘the wild self’…

enclosed is an introductory piece that speaks to emerson’s experience with loss… few people have pondered the topic of loss as extensively as emerson…

understanding loss is important because when we are involuntarily severed from somebody, someplace, or something… we inevitably are forced to go on the hero’s journey into the unknown.. into our wild self…

alive,

gino

click to hear the audio essays

ralph waldo emerson: living with loss

ralph waldo emerson: encounters with loss