I started this blog when I was preparing to go to Afghanistan with Voices For Creative Nonviolence UK in 2012. The ‘Live Adventurously’ imperative comes from a text, Quaker Advices and Queries 27.
Many of the posts reflect our time in Afghanistan and many describe later visits I have made to Russia.
However, ‘Live Adventurously’ has come to mean something very different of late.
Even before lockdown, or calm down as I once heard it called, I have become aware that my sight was gradually growing dimmer. Things I used to do became more difficult and sometimes I had to acccept that i could no longer do them. An example is that last year at this time I travelled to Russia alone to spend two weeks with friends in Perm improving(!) my Russian. It was a most enjoyable holiday with many happy memories but I realise I can no longer travel abroad alone. Of course Covid means I may never be able to travel abroad again but my dream is to travel to Russia overland and be in this country I have grown to love just one more time.
Meanwhile, I think living adventurously in the present situation may mean something as simple as catching a bus! We’ll see.
Live Adventurously 