01/01/2024
As is common at this time of year, I have been reflecting on the year that has been and considering my year ahead. I came across the following journal entry I wrote a couple of months ago while on a surf trip in an Indonesian jungle.
"Enjoying my connection with people here, having interesting conversations - it certainly attracts a varied and colourful representation of humans.
Some crazy society escapees that feel more at home in the remote jungle, big wave chasers in their 50s and 60s still charging, exhibiting an amazing relationship with the ocean and adventure and then there are those tapping into the juice of a wild jungle experience to give life to an otherwise mundane, risk averse life.
For these last group of people, it is where we come to get in touch with the Wild man, to breathe life into our basic, instinctual being, light the fire to carry us through another year of obligations and expectations which become less relevant the deeper we go into the Wildman.
How big a house do you need, or car, new clothes, the latest toys, recognition from others, when we get in touch with the wildman, this is where and when we are brave enough to question the meaningfulness of all of it and dare to let it go as we fly down the line of another beautiful, powerful wave, vulnerable and free."
This page and my work is about getting men in touch with their own inner strength through connection to nature and themselves.
I wish you a potent, powerful, purposeful and passionate year ahead and may you connect with the spirit of the wildman in you.
