It's Offline Week here at Bumblehill

Speaking of rest, work/life balance, and taking things one step at a time (as we were in Saturday's post), the week ahead is an Offline Week for me so that I can focus on a work deadline. Also, as long time readers know, I take periodic breaks from life online in order to make sure my roots are firmly grounded in the land underfoot and the life and community around me...which I think is a good practice in this digital age.

Tilly and I will be back on Monday, May 6. Happy trails till then!

"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked,
winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May
your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow
without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells,
past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest
where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious
swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and
pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep
vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled
cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms
come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something
strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest
dreams waits for you — beyond that next turning of the canyon
walls.”  – Edward Abbey (1927-1989)

(Do feel free to carry on the conversations in the various Comment threads, and I'll join in again next week.)