Deliberate Living is the piece-meal journal-unedited, unexpurgated, and very rough-edged- that I wrote for the six months prior to and then during The Journey for Safe Spaces, a 114 mile trek across two counties of Long Island that I undertook in late August of 2005. More importantly, it's also the record of living the kind of life that has finally brought me a certain amount of real joy and contentment. While the outward circumstances of my life haven't changed all that much over the past few years, what has altered and begun to gel for me is how I live my life. Thus, while I've been a teacher on some level for around thirty years-everything from second grade to college-it's been how I look at and carry out that job and how I go about living in this often crazy world of ours that's slowly shifted. Indeed, shifted far enough for me to undertake one of the truly inspiring experiences of my life: a six day adventure to raise money for a worthwhile youth-based charity.
So if you're interested in reading my journal, what you'll read is the spontaneous memoir of a very deliberate journey-one that began long before the event itself. It's about the preparations and training that went into it, starting about March of 2005, and about the actual August "pilgrimage" from Valley Stream at the western end to Montauk Point in the sunrise east.
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