Wandering and Wondering - Tapa blanda

Wandering has two stories of life’s beginning and its end. In “Hello,” a young character finds himself alone, curious and questioning, seeking answers to life’s uncertainties from the characters he meets along the way. In “That Final Leap,” a grasshopper lives his life of fun and excitement and finds himself at the end.

Who wrote this book? What is he like? Is he like me? Or different? Well, he is the nut who jumped out of a plane at 13,000 feet, screaming in delight during free-fall and landing (alive) with whoops of joy and excitement. He is the shredder barreling down the mountain atop his snowboard, pushing powder here and there and hoping desperately to avoid the fallen newbies. He is the biker zooming past you along the trail, helmet and sunglasses hiding his identity while he splashes through the stream as you dodge the cascading water. He is the scrambler who darted into that crevice, up that crack, and arrived at the top of those rock piles while encouraging his friends to follow. He is the old-timer freezing his hiney in California’s frigid oceans, gliding past you on the boogie-board, curving to follow the crest of the wave and then returning to do it again. He is the seemingly lost man, looking for hidden geocaches along nature’s trails and within man’s cities, seeking, finding, logging, and moving on to the next. He is the grass-cutter, the dish-washer, the factory-worker, the carpet layer, the demolition-worker, the maintenance-man, the security-guard, the store product-counter, the gift-wrapper, the sales-person, the museum tour-guide, the lecturer, the teacher, the writer whose stories you now have available to you.