Once You Go Back: Parque Nacional Jaragua Botanial Wonderland
This extra post is for subscribers only. It's mostly photos of formative trip into the wilds.
The story of Once You Go Back is fictionalized but based on my experiences. Today, I went through old 35 mm slides of some of my travels and wanted to share. This was a pivotal time in life, in a spectacular place. This is me, not a charactor, sharing my real experiences and photos. It will also cast a light where the narrator of the fictionalized story is headed.
There are points in childhood when our brains are especially sensitive, plastic and receptive. I think they call them critical points; moments of coding or programing. It’s when we become us.
The things we integrate then are not always becoming. As we mature, constraints reduce those moments. But they are possible.
Once, long ago, when I didn’t realize I was seeking to redefine relationships with certain types of people, I swooned into one of those critical moments.
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