Adventure is a tricky word. It is subjective, vague. It can be a perilous voyage on raging seas, or calmly speaking our mind over coffee with a friend. But we know this: adventure takes an individual out of their comfort zone and calls them to
Poetry transplants us. It jars us awake with its pace and rhythm, so different from everyday life. It grabs us by the shoulders and says, as Rilke did so brilliantly in “Archaic Torso of Apollo”: You must change your life. A good poem distills truth and beauty
Sometimes you just want to submerge yourself in a story -- to stay up too late because the book is just that enveloping, or seriously reconsider breakfast if not eating means covering more pages. Each of these sagas (saga: from Proto-Germanic sago meaning long, heroic narrative)