Darrel Gregory

Darrel spent most of his career in communications. Writing, planning, issues management—that sort of thing. For the past 15 years of his career, he was a director with a national health charity. Budgeting, strategic planning, performance management, donor relations—that sort of thing.

Then a strange, deeply unsettling thing happened. He woke up one morning experiencing a sort of Jungian crisis of identity. The big questions floated (although that hardly seems like the right word) through his consciousness. Who am I? What have I been doing? As Joseph Campbell might ask (whose work on the hero journey is the basis for Genny & Bug) is my nature (small ‘n’) aligned with Nature (the universe, consciousness, being, whatever you want to call it). The answer to that last question was a resounding ‘no.’ He was a fraud and was living a lie. What else was there to do but quit his job? Nothing says “all in” quite like quitting your job and turning your life upside down. After spending the last five years of his so-called normal career in Calgary, he is now back in Edmonton, close to his children and grandchildren.

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