Redemption

Writing a new arc in our stories

Pigeon on a wire © by Dave Graham

I’m back in my chair, coffee having been consumed, and I am reviewing photos from the past weekend. Along with taking a class around monochrome photography, I’m attempting to work my way through the art that is both digital and analogue. This involves people, places, things, and ideas I wouldn’t normally throw together into the same mix. That being said, it’s been an ongoing revelation.

I want to talk about redemption today. I want to talk about the reality of changing what once was into something different, more adaptable, more different than what once was. This redemption isn’t religious, though you’d be forgiven if you felt I was going to go there. No, this redemption is the story of us, of how we as humans become something different.

Over the past several months, both Emma and I have walked through planning our next great adventures. This has involved interviews, document preparations, deep thinking on topics we’d ideally love never to discuss again, and various permutations of “what ifs.” I’ve written about them a lot, both here and copied over at Medium, and they’ve been received in the spirit intended. But through each of these posts, the one subject (amongst many, I assure you) that hasn’t been dealt with from my end is that of redemption.