Dear reader, 

The book's cover shows a Kiva - a New Mexico pueblo ceremonial temple I saw in a dream after my first visit there in the early 80's.

It illustrates what my experience conveys about the human journey in and out outer and inner world.

By that time, finding footing to sustain chaotic transitions included physically walking away from family dysfunction and trauma and into the unknown.
This is the place where I am at the bottom of the steps contemplating life in the larger sense and my place in it. 

I chose the public service path and after three decades of active exploration working in education, dismayed I saw the dysfunction I knew so well mirrored in the world. The question was what to do next to overcome existential angst.

The stairs are a metaphor for the constant movement walking up into the external world and then falling into the void of the inner temple to find answers.

There life utilized elements of magical realism and mystical experiences revealing and connecting truths about everyday human life and ultimate truth beyond the human senses. This truth belongs to humanity.

The word "accidental" in the subtitle means that the journey wasn't born from a grand plan but small, daily-living vulnerable steps into the unknown. 

May you relate to this journey.