53. I Don't Know Where We Are Going

Apr 30, 2021

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Oh hi,

It’s almost the weekend friends.

I completely missed the 1 year anniversary of The Dossier last week, thank you Jennie for the reminder. This newsletter is the antidote to my day job which loosely translated means I get to have a lot of fun with her! Thank you to just over 1,000 subscribers for reading along for the past 52 weeks <3

PS: so much fun in fact that I resigned from my day job on Friday (it felt a lot like this.)

Here are a few interesting and/or meaningful distractions to celebrate unemployment this week.

1. Reading

The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life — Boyd Varty

South Africans will recognise the Varty name from their famous Luxury Safari Lodge called Londolozi. (The word Londolozi comes from a Zulu word and means ‘Protector Of All Living Things’)

Boyd Varty spent his childhood on Londolozi Game Reserve (dream childhood!), learning the ways of the bush and how to track the Big Five. He’s found a beautiful way to use examples from the South African wilderness as ways for us to tackle the loss of purpose and disconnection we sometimes feel in modern cities around the world.

“Modern men and women have fallen into the numbing lure of screens and social networks and poisoned foods and jobs that are meaningless. We have forgotten that life holds a unique story for us all. A thread made up of faint signs that lead to the manifestation of something unique. What the native people call ‘your medicine way’. Something that only you can give to the world.”