Connecting with design

 We had a great third day walking 8 miles on the beach and ending up at a fun resort. Every room came with a golf cart, so of course the wedding dress had to go for a spin. We had a lovely evening curled up in front of a fireplace, listening to the sea, and talking about design. Not interior design, or 2-D art design, but life design. How do we treat our lives like design issues.

 What do we want for our future, and how do we design our current life so that it leads to our future life. How do we make choices that lead, step by step, to the future we are dreaming of? So we looked at our dreams and our visions and our values and talked about ways to bring our present into alignment with the future we want to live.

This conversation reminded me of an amazing sci-fi series about a place called Amber. In this book the family of Amber changes the world, moves from one location to another, but visualizing where they want to be...and walking. The world changes around them as they walk. That is what we were doing, walking and changing our lives. We are dreaming our future and walking toward it.

 The world around us was changing, because we were changing. We were connecting with the life we wanted, and designing our present to match it. 

What is that life? One full of walking on beaches and living fully and finding adventures in every aspect of our life.

 We want to live as adventurers, we want to inspire others to do the same. We outlined a book and walked. And walked. And walked.

Walking changes our lives. In some ways it it s lost art that allows us to dream and discover and change who we are. Walking gives us space and time to dream. Walking helps us, like the princesses and princes of Amber, to shift the world around us until it aligns with our dreams. Until we align with our dreams.