Developing a point of view where you have taken the time to get both sides or more of a story, maybe it was a hexagonal story, and then after much thought and deliberation, come to a conclusion that you believe and that you could defend and or promote to the world, is really a great feeling of maturation.
I still may be wrong on a topic but at least I am not just throwing an ill educated, amateurish, sophomoric, quick opinion out there because you know what opinions are like… and everybody has one.
In my effort to capture the ever elusive quarry of ‘The Emerging Man’, in his newly found habitat, he attempts to poke his head out into the lush pasture of success, inching out from the safety of his field stone brush row, he is realizing that genius and originality goals may be unattainable and actually causing a fear of failure that is illogical at this juncture, thereby freezing our indecisive prey in the margin of the field of his new endeavor, it has occurred to me that what he is looking for is some of his own kind.
As the natural world makes it look so natural and as Mohammad Ali put it so eloquently, “Blue birds go with blue birds, eagles go with eagles and buzzards belong with buzzards.”
As we take a closer look at this species of ‘The Emerging Man’ circa 2017, we are reminded of the similar species discovered in 1898 in California by way of the Northern Klondike region.
The two specimens are similar and remind us of African and Asian lions. Both are in the cat family, both look like a lion would look, both have the same spirit of a lion. And leave the same spoor.
Although this newer species started out a tad mangy, being discovered as it was ’emerging’ from the wilderness.Â
The older specimen died a bit to young and he too had a rough time of it as a youngster, not because of what his environment was or did to him, but because he was wild and rough like the environment of his day and so he set out devouring that environment with gusto, no creature ever lived so many lives. This specimen was known to travel the world. From the Pacific South Sea’s, The Solomon Islands, Hawaii, Alaska and from New York City to the great state of California. This particular tom cat was well known…Â
As it is a natural law for like to be attracted to like, “blue birds to blue birds”, in the Champs words. This new species has always been drawn by the marks left by the original lion.
Marks known around the world, black scratches on white periderm, coming together to form well known territorial signposts with names like ‘White Fang’ and ‘Call of the Wild’.
This new lion may not have the extended travel area of the old lion but he certainly displays the same spirit.
Let’s return to him now and watch as he learns and discovers this new and lush environment and see if he can survive by learning from the tracks left by so many who came before him.
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