Friday, January 29, 2010

a theme

so the hikes i do are generally about an hour. i take a group of people out into the rainforest and talk to them about the nature around them. but, before i can just take these people out & tell them about what they are looking @ i need to write a program & make an outline of what i will be saying to them. for this outline, its is necessary to have a theme. yes, a theme. remember when writing papers for school and ya had to have that topic sentence? well, that's what i have to come up with for my talks.

in the past 2 days ive been working at writing another hike. i have all my information, the plants, cultural stories, and ideas of what to say. all the information is right on and my sources are credible. But, i have to come up with a theme statement that ties all this information together. one sentence to write that will allow my mind to keep tying all what i speak about to a central theme.

then, after work, i was sitting here at my computer and wondered what is the theme for my life? what one sentence could i sum up my whole life, so that if i'd say this sentence, this theme statement, that i'd be continually drawn back to it. that everyting i'd do & say would be a reflection of this statement. hummm. now ive got to get thinking.

a theme for my life. if i had it, then i'd be able to bounce anything i do off this theme, and if it made sense then i'd do it. otherwise if it did not coincide with the theme, then i'd better not do it.

hummmm.....

1 comments:

Mary said...

yea, it reminds me of what I read recently and has come up different times in recent years. That being developing a mission statement as a family or individual.....so helpful in decision making and choices that we make constantly. I/we have yet to write that out and keep it before us.
Thank you Neal!