The Road Not Taken
Me and my dear "soul sister" Nancy at the 2012 UN Women's Sacred Circle I have, always, loved the Robert Frost poem, " A Road Not Taken ." The last few lines resonated with me, even as a child. "I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." Something in the idea of going where few have gone before appealed to my young sense of adventure. As I grew, experiencing life, I realized that this was much more difficult than simply deciding to go in another direction. The lure of the material world, the world of fame and fortune, the insidiously fabricated world of "you-must-have" and "you-must-do," is often hard to resist. In addition, sometimes this world is so simply packaged that we don't even realize we are traveling down a slippery slope until we come crashing to the ...