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When inspiration strikes, it does so at times that can be either convenient or difficult to manage. It can be a gentle nudge toward gradual change or a compulsion so strong that it levels everything around it to the ground to be built up from scratch. This collection of essays, written by the author over the course of a decade, highlights his journey to leave behind a career as a copywriter, to travel the world in search of inspiration and new experiences, and to navigate the same modern human experiences as so many others. Through marathon races and reluctant therapy, self-actualization and reflection find their way to the forefront in many intended and unexpected ways in this volume of more than two dozen published essays.
Since each of these essays comes from the same man, the same mind, and within a relatively contained period of time in the larger scheme of things, many of the insights and details become familiar to the reader as they move through the book. Yet, because these writings come during different periods of the author’s life, are spurred to life from different inspirations, or even presented with different publications in mind, each one offers a fresh perspective and a unique angle that makes it compelling and captivating in its own way. From liberating tourist and research trips in China to the frustrating and familiar bureaucracy of American business, these essays will surprise readers with how much they can relate to what might otherwise be a rather disparate series of locales and circumstances because of the author’s honest and surgical presentation of his own path through them. This engaging collection is well worth reading.
RECOMMENDED by the US Review