No More Box

Coming soon to a city near you (Ok, not near you, unless you live near the little city of Ocoee,  FL)…

A New Adventure Begins

This summer is going to bring with it some huge changes. Huge changes for this site. Huge changes for my company, No More Box. Huge changes for my life (did I mention we are having another baby and it’s a girl). Things are going to be different and it is going to be an adventure.

Except…

That word adventure keeps getting stuck in my brain. When I write it like that… Adventure… it feels ok. But when I think about putting it on my business card (presently designing a new one), or on my about page (did I mention I was redesigning the site), it comes out as Chris Marsden… Adventurer.

And that, I guess, is an accurate description. I am Chris Marsden and I am engaging in the adventures of life.

Except…

I keep picturing myself climbing to the Summit of Denali (Mt. McKinley to most people), or more likely dying/giving up trying to climb to the summit of Denali. Maybe it’s just the PBS special I watch the other night, but that’s adventure.

Except…

I think I had it right the first time. Adventure is life. Or at least it should be. Too often we get stuck in the rut of getting through life instead of embracing the twist and turns, whatever they may be, and embarking on adventure. If necessary, that adventure will lead me all the way to the backyard, or the grocery store, or perhaps Disney World. Of course it could lead me further. It could lead me to actually climb Denali (unlikely since I heard it is kinda cold up there).

The key, I think, is to embrace whatever adventure is thrown your way.

As a famous man in a yellow suit once said to a curious monkey, "you brought adventure to my life." Now I don’t plan to wear yellow anytime soon, and it is not to a monkey but to the three (about to be four) wonderful women in my life, but "You brought adventure to my life."

So…

New adventures begin. Life gets a little messier (literally with a new baby), and we keep going. My new business card, about page, and email signature will include adventurer in the job description, and someday maybe I’ll go on the kind of adventures that get you into National Geographic or on PBS. And if not, at least I’ll know that my life was filled with adventure.

Thanks girls (and little one yet to be).

[btw... anyone else in the mood to hear Jack Johnson Now?]