It's easy to lament the Los Angeles smoke during an extreme fire, and I do lament my decision to touch base during a typical hot month that typically produces fires and hazardous air, but it's refreshing to be indoors with air purifiers and inspiration courtesy of Roz Savage. Roz dealt with breaking from her standard life by ditching the red sports car and rowing across the ocean.
Her adventure put me in touch with my own adventure.
And I pondered the undercurrents that drive a woman to ditch a standard life whole-heartedly or ditch a standard life gingerly, piecemeal, kind of like me.
If you want to chuck everything whole-heartedly and start life anew, you can check out Roz and see how she rowed into an extreme different life.
Kind of like that LA fire that started, and blazes forward undeterred by a thousand men in blue uniforms dropping water. But not like me who transforms on the clean air road piecemeal--one zipline, kayak, canoe, and camping trip (okay, and resort) at a time, checking back into LA at the worst possible time because I missed my friends and sorting my own mail.
What's familiar, indeed, comes with a comfort tag, and bad air, and I'll add bad hair. The air is so foul I canceled my appointment with David's salon, which I'd looked forward to after a Super Cuts employee on the road to clean air butchered by hair.
It is possible to turn your life around whole-heartedly, if you want to. Read Roz's story on CNN and get inspired here.
To follow my adventures into clean air check back, for currently I'm in Los Angeles suffering hazardous air but not alone, and not for long, and maybe that next adventure will no longer reflect piecemeal but a whole-heart.
Photo courtesy of Roz Savage.
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