UNDER CONSTRUCTION or really “just begun.” I’m too busy most of my time to write like this while preferring to photograph nature, usually birds or butterflies here in Costa Rica! But occasionally “in the mood to write.” 🙂
Introduction
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary says: “A saga is a long and complicated story or series of events.”
And I don’t think my life has been any longer or more complicated than anyone else’s necessarily, but the few times I’ve contemplated a biography it has always seemed in my mind like too many complicated events and more stories or events than I can recall or properly tell. But once again I will try to begin the story or stories of my life in some organized and meaningful way.
First I should point to the current collection of little biographies (written for specific purposes, some written by other people) under my ABOUT page on this website which also includes links to a series of printed “scrapbook” biography books (4 volumes) that can be viewed electronically or in the printed form in my bookstore as mostly photo books made when I digitally copied years of physical scrapbooks before destroying them for a lack of storage space.
Also under ABOUT is a collection of Life Stories I have written down from different periods of my life over the years and expanded some when at McKendree Retirement Village as I participated in a writing club for less than two years. Plus there are also the spasmodic Journals I kept over different short periods of my life and personal pages on hobbies and interests that again share about my life only in spots or “splotches” but still no total story which I will try to stitch together here.
It should also be noted here that earlier this year (2022) I tried to start a type of “spiritual biography” online under HIS SPIRIT called “The Arc of My Soul” inspired by Quaker Friends literature I read, using that title, but I did not get further than a similar outline to the chapter titles below and now I can’t find it! 🙂 So I’m incorporating that as a section inside each of these chapters.
Whew! Yes my efforts have been too scattered! Maybe this will be where I put it all together as one continuous story. While at the same time continuing my nature-focused life in Costa Rica which I blog about almost daily 🙂 Here’s the now planned 8 Chapters or basic outline of my “Saga” with only one written so far, and each as a sub-page under this menu item.
Contents
- Pioneering Roots
- Explorer Child
- Impressionable Adolescent
- Goal-oriented Single Young Adult
- Debilitating Marriage and Conservative Associations
- Starting Life Over – Gambia & Nashville
- Starting Life Over Again & Again (2 changes)
- Retired in Costa Rica
¡Pura Vida!
2. Explorer Child
To be written . . .
3. Impressionable Adolescent
To be written . . .
4. Goal-Oriented Single Young Adult
To be written . . .
5. Debilitating Marriage & Conservative Associations
Merriam-Webster Definition of debilitating: “causing serious impairment of strength or ability to function.”
To be written . . .
6. Starting Life Over – Gambia & Nashville
To be written . . .
7. Starting Life Over Again & Again
To be written . . .
8. Retired in Costa Rica
To be written . . .
To look at all the little pieces of my life check out the list of things under the ABOUT tab of this website and maybe I will eventually have a single story here! And to keep up with my life in retirement, subscribe to my Blog. (Type your email in right-hand column where indicated for email notice of each post.)
¡Pura Vida!