Adventure!

This is a post in response to Pablo hosting of IndieWeb Carnival for April, 2026 on the theme of “Adventure.” My parents contextualized difficult times as “an adventure.” Moving day was an adventure. Broken down car while on a family trip? Adventure. Sunburn during the summer? Adventure. I think it’s a valid way to think about the world. Life is an adventure. Human beings like me, and you, are subject to mortality, death, pain at every minute. People–young and old–have heart attacks and strokes every day. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. This is not fun to think about. The truth of it has the capacity to stop people from moving forward. It can freeze us to inaction. But it’s good to sally forth. We must live our lives. I find the framing of “adventure” useful to me. Dropping off a postcard at the post office could be every bit as dramatic as Frodo and Sam’s trip to destroy The One Ring. It’s certainly more real than those fictional Hobbits. Recently: Virginia Hats were unexpected…