An Invitation to Remember
As a child, Daniel Goodenough imagined a world where each person’s reason for being was honored and nurtured. A world where we are all guided to remember, cultivate, and unfold the call of the soul throughout our lives. This vision has inspired a lifelong search for an architecture of remembering.
But how do we remember our most fundamental why? How do we build a life around what this calls us to do and who it calls us to become?
The Caravan of Remembering offers a blueprint—a journey into this inquiry, an unfolding of what it means to live our life mission with intention and authenticity.
A Journey Between Worlds
Caravan is both a story and an experience—an invitation to step between two worlds:
The Horizontal World – The everyday life of responsibilities, possessions, and routines, where our sense of purpose can become clouded or distant.
The Imaginal World – The realm of remembering, where deep knowing emerges, and the journey of life mission becomes clear.
Through the eyes of David, the main character in Caravan of Remembering, we are guided into this exploration. As he walks through his home, his belongings, and his memories, he begins to see his life with new eyes—questioning what has meaning, what carries weight, and what is calling him forward.
What would it be like to suddenly find yourself in the desert? To hear the distant bells of the caravan, to sit by the fire among fellow seekers, and to listen for the whisper of your own soul’s calling? Caravan invites you to step into this imaginal space—to witness, to reflect, and to remember.
Perspectives on life mission
The Caravan of Remembering offers many different metaphors and ways of thinking about life mission. Here are a couple of them:
The Acorn and the Oak Tree: Our Inner Design
"The acorn will grow into an oak tree, and not a fig tree—a call the acorn is designed to answer."
— The Caravan of Remembering.
Nature operates by blueprints, and we do too. We each have an intrinsic design, a natural calling that is unique to us. However, just like an acorn needs the right conditions—sunlight, water, and nutrients—to grow into a strong oak tree, we need the right environment to flourish.
Ask yourself:
✅ What are my sources of "sunlight, water, and nutrients"?
✅ What conditions bring out the best in me?
✅ What kind of "soil" do I thrive in?
Daniel Goodenough emphasizes that who we surround ourselves with plays a crucial role in shaping our path.
Being Part of Something Great
"Once you've been part of something great, even for a moment, that stays with you for the rest of your life." - The Caravan of Remembering
Greatness isn't defined by global impact but emerges whenever we challenge limitations. It might be rallying your community for a cause or creating unexpected change within your family. These experiences, regardless of scale, transform our relationship with possibility.
After tasting greatness once, you can never be convinced again that it can't happen. Each victory builds confidence for the next, creating a beautiful cycle of challenging what we believe possible and discovering ourselves forever changed.
🎧 Listen to Daniel’s Insight (impromtu during a CaravanGo weekly practice):