Leaving the Flock

BLOG 1: RON'S NEW BOOK FIRST DRAFT

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you.
 
Richard Bach
The Messiah's Handbook
Illusions; The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
 
For most of my adult life I have felt the pull of the other world, the world that lies beyond the normal senses. It fills my soul with a joy beyond understanding. I can no more describe it than can a bird tell earthbound mortals like ourselves of the joy of taking wing and soaring without effort or thought far above the earth, just for the pure joy of flying.
Some time ago I spent an hour talking with Richard Bach, as he described the process of authoring his first mega-successful book entitled, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The conversation brought back to my mind some of the powerful experiences that I have had with that strange and wonderful source of all true gifts, of ecstasy and spirit, that lies within all of mankind; that source that I call, for lack of a better word, or more adequate knowledge, God.
I think back on that conversation with Richard as I drive the winding mountain road this July morning, when I am bolted into the realization that the story that I will be relating to you, that so reminded me of Richard’s own experience in writing Jonathan Livingston Seagull, took place twenty-five years ago. A long time ago, but then again, maybe everything happens in its own time.