What is Your IQ?

Not that one.

What if we created a new kind of IQ?

One not based on standardized testing. Not based on proficiency regarding spatial relationships.

What if IQ stood for I Quest.

And I Quest pertained to each of our madcap, miraculous journeys here on this glorious troubled planet.

What your IQ is, would then be an ever-evolving phenomena.

Not a static measurement, but the latest chapter in our real time story.

How much more riveting.

I am interested in your first person life. Not the muddied montage of a third person amalgam formulated from our second-hand ideas of who we think we should be.

Not the omniscient narrator of a branded life.

I am interested in the highly customized, high-flying freak flag of the fiercely fought-for life filled with strong character chiseled from choice and courageous acts of love.

This kind of life is never the same two days or minutes in a row.

The quest is an on-going adventure.

There are dismal chapters heavy with the grief of loss.

And hopeful chapters where the horizon is clear and feels within reach. There are the glorious chapters lived from mountaintops with infinite perspective.

And there are the chapters wherein the ditch seems so deep there is no digging out.

It is the story of Odysseus. Of Telemachus.

Of us… if we allow our selves and each other the freedom to live so fully.