OHHH! I found it! The magic key to posting on Drive Across America! Hurray!
So here's the deal - In June, my husband Dave and I drove from Portland to Chicago to deliver our 22 year old daughter to her post to Teach for America at an elementary school on the southside. We started to think about roadtrips in a different way than we had before - the adventure of making it up as you go.
I think we all want more play and more opportunities for creativity and connection in our lives. More play. Not necessarily "less work". Just more play, more engagement with the world in a "non-productive fashion", where our brains are less directed and more open to what IS and what WILL BE.
Perhaps this is the place we need to visit more frequently. Perhaps this is the state of mind that connects us more fully to God, to right-action, to the mystery of flow. Maybe it is in this state that the nature of reality shifts and we see past the illusion of our constructions - politics, the economy, global warming. Perhaps in this place all that can be imagined is possible. Your way of travel can take you there. Making art takes me to this place as well. As does prayer.
When our brains are less directed and more open to what IS, we are able to let ourselves off the hook a little, fully bask in the joy of something, be present in a small, sweet moment. I do believe that this happens in travel, and in art, and in prayer. And I so hope that you are correct - that this state of mind also connects us more fully to right-action.
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