This morning was pleasant. I hung out in my hammock from 8am to 10am, reading Between Wyomings by Ken Mansfield, which is has been a really fun read as he begins a road trip in a VW van with his wife for a year of traveling the United States (I like the adventurer types)… this is a memoir (of sorts), as he brings you back to his time in the music industry and the uppers and downers (literally) of when he was at the top of his game as one of the most sought after music producers of 70’s and 80’s. Anyway, I was reading this and thinking that there are some of us out there no matter the age that have a wonderlust that needs quenching. A curiosity about the world that cannot be contained in a cubicle (for very long, at least). He states quite beautifully,

I am a product of my own imagination, which quixotically has never found a place to call home. I feel as if I have been forced to spend an entire existence unerringly adrift and without real roots. Although I am not sure where I am headed at this moment, traffic is light, and I am making good time.¹

He pulled the words right out of my heart. What about you? Can you relate to this wonderlust, or is this foreign to you?

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1. Ken Mansfield; “Between Wyomings: My God and an iPod on the Open Road”, Thomas Nelson, 2009; pg 155.

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Book Description
Join Ken Mansfield on a road trip through the canyons of Hollywood, the outlaw alleys of Nashville, and the backstreets of his soul as this Grammy Award-winning producer recreates his journey through the lush landscapes of success and the deserts that led him home.

For three decades, Ken Mansfield lived the heady life of a record executive and friend to such cultural icons as the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Dolly Parton, and Waylon Jennings. Along the way, he collected a Grammy, number-one albums, and a disquiet that he pushed soul-deep.Between Wyomings invites readers to travel with him on a tender journey that calls readers to reflect on the highways of their own lives and the deserts that press them into the heart of a Creator who has been there all along. As Ken discovers, sometimes when we see how lost we are, we can finally begin to find home.