{"id":1550,"date":"2008-05-11T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/voyages-of-discovery\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:13:13","slug":"voyages-of-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/05\/voyages-of-discovery.html","title":{"rendered":"Voyages of Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SCbarT6EXII\/AAAAAAAAA7w\/1xJ8w9-QvP0\/s1600-h\/fool.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_niPwTW3rBbU\/SCbarT6EXII\/AAAAAAAAA7w\/1xJ8w9-QvP0\/s320\/fool.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\">How could I have expected<br>that after a long life I would<br>understand no more than to wake up<br>at night and to repeat: strange,<br>strange, strange, o how strange, how<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:100%\"><br>strange. O how funny and strange.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">Czeslaw Milosz<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">I notice that today is the anniversary of many things, but they include how on this day a long time ago Christopher Columbus launched off on his last voyage of discovery. And, on this day not quite so long ago the Beagle launched, carrying Charles Darwin on his voyage of discovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">Here I am now racing toward sixty and with Milosz I find that the great gift of my life is learning that it truly is a voyage of discovery, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">I open my eyes, and \u2013 Strange!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">How strange!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">How funny and strange!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">How sad and strange!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">And in that moment, once again (and in a heartbeat to be forgotten) I learn that I have been transformed<br><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">New life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">New shape.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">Where will it go this time I open my eyes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">This voyage of discovery<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"font-family:verdana\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><br><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-8911263606583101473?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How could I have expectedthat after a long life I wouldunderstand no more than to wake upat night and to repeat: strange,strange, strange, o how strange, howstrange. 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