Elizabeth Erickson

My intentions and reasons for creating a blog have yet to be fully conceived. I keep my life in motion because I want to be alive; fully and exuberantly, to a copious level. You can do anything if you are willing to fully put in the efforts required. Sometimes life takes a little perseverance.

With that in mind, I am your average thrill-seeking, adventure-loving, knowledge-soaking individual. I am driven by the tantalizing allure of a new experience.

So, what do all those lovely adjectives mean when applied to myself? Well, that is the best part. I get to be an ever-evolving, dynamic person, highly susceptible to change. That is the only way I know how to be, and the only way I intend to live. Everyone hears that life is short but how often do you heed the advice? Coming from a geology background I can tell you that the entirety of human existence is short. A single life span is as fleeting as an afternoon shower on the high plains desert. Sometimes more pronounced than the last, sometimes more memorable than the last, sometimes lasting minutes to hours to days, sometimes desperately desired, sometimes built up with great anticipation, sometimes coming out of thin air, sometimes ending with a rainbow, sometimes accompanied by destruction. But always is comes and then goes. In the end, no one makes it out alive. I may live to be quite old or I may be on a shorter track. Why wait around figuring out which one it will be? When it happens, the chance is already over.

Two quotes resonate strongly in my mind:

I am a doer, a seeker, and a dreamer. If I stop participating in one of those activities, my life will essentially have stopped too. Life, being alive, is about motion.

Alive (adjective):
1. having life
2a. still in existence, force, or operation
2b. still active in competition with a chance of victory
3. knowing or realizing the existence of
4. marked by alertness, energy, or briskness
5. marked by much life, animation, or activity

Synonyms:
animate, breathing, live, living, quick; aboil, abubble, abuzz, animated, astir, brisk, bustling, busy, buzzing, flourishing, happening, hopping, humming, kinetic, lively, rousing, stirring, thriving, vibrant

Related Words:
active, animated, dynamic, lively, thriving, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious; current, existent, existing, extant, going, prevailing, surviving;
[taken from Merriam-Webster]

Since adventure is what is important to me, I have been fairly successful at making time and creating opportunities to suit those desires. On occasion a friend or family member would like to keep up on my whereabouts, but I may be one of the worst people at staying in touch. Keeping a travel blog was fairly successful for a ten month trip I took to South America, so the viola! bell rang and light bulbs went off: why not use the blog for all my escapades? Even if no one else utilizes it, there will be a great documentation of my travels when I am old and forgetful. Thus, Life in Motion was born. I will apologize in advance for anyone hoping for a topic specific blog that will provide valuable information about similar interests. I will try to uphold the integrity of the blogging system in terms of giving credit where credit is due to other resources, making ample use of links to lead readers off to better written and more thoughtful sites, and keeping things relevant and insightful. However, this blog will be entirely too intermittent, full of bad grammar and run-on sentences, only cover topics that are pertinent to my current interests, and likely be overwhelmed by flourished writing spotted with too much emotion.

If you do decided to comb through the relics of my writing, I hope you find some enjoyment through my accounts.