Articles tagged with: Outward Bound
Second Adulthood »
You’re Not Who You Were, Only Older – My “first post” from December, 2005
My first step into Second Adulthood was backward off a ninety-foot cliff. On impulse, I had signed up for an Outward Bound program and found myself poised in full rappelling gear—harness, helmet, and guide rope—to walk down the face of what could just as well have been my twelve-story apartment building. The terror was pure. I was only mildly distracted by the reassuring words of our leader: “Fear is the appropriate response here. After all, evolution doesn’t …
