I’ve lived in the Dominican Republic, Seattle, Tucson, San Francisco, Atlanta, Asheville, a Buddhist monastery near the coast of California, and points in between. I’ve now lived for six years in the home of country music, the Grand Old Opry, Jack White, and the Parthenon, Nashville! Here I share with you my writing about these adventures.

Why “illimitable”? Well, I call it that in honor of the American theologian and minister Ralph Waldo Emerson, who believed, as I do, that a certain sublime order or divinity is evident in our lives. This blog is about paying attention to what has happened to me, and by extension, the sublime order of things.

 

“… [transcendental awe for the universe] is divine and deifying. It is the beatitude of man. It makes him illimitable. Through it, the soul first knows itself. It corrects the capital mistake of the infant man, who seeks to be great by following the great, and hopes to derive advantages from another, — by showing the fountain of all good to be in himself, and that he, equally with every man, is an inlet into the deeps of Reason. When he says, “I ought;” when love warms him; when he chooses, warned from on high, the good and great deed; then, deep melodies wander through his soul from Supreme Wisdom. Then he can worship, and be enlarged by his worship; for he can never go behind this sentiment. In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson