Hi David
I plan to carry on drawing people into adventure too. Spiritually it is
full square with my beliefs about life being an inner and outer journey
of realising and fulfilling passions. If you dare there is risk. All
mythologies recognise this in their stories. In some ways I believe
outdoor leaders are the storytellers of our time substituting for the
aural story telling of our past. Without the mythic framework our
passions can be uncontained and misdirected. With the framework (of myth
or adventure maybe) they are harnessed for a healthy expression.
If our call is that we have respect and trust with our participants and
all other significant players in that persons life then do it. The rest
of the story about the young person I taught to climb who died is that
his younger brother asked me to teach him to climb.
Key words you have used for me are authentic and personal. If we keep it
their we will be sound if not safe in an inpersonal and inauthentic
world that may judge our actions differently perhaps with no right to
judge.
regards
Chris Loynes
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