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Because I’m so thankful for everything I have, and for just a little while I need to remember what it feels like to have none of it.
The paradoxical experience of finding contentment
Walking with Spring.
My roots are the calculus of who I am, but they are not
only who I am.
I was in a new place, at the beginning of a vast journey, and I felt...
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My first day in the Smokies was a long, strenuous one, but I felt alive and content as it wound to a close.
Endurance itself brought its own deep-seated warmth;
adversity bred transformation, that there would be an enlightening ease at the other end of this struggle.
Remember there is always a way through if my why is clear enough and means enough
“Remember this, boy: This is who I am, and this is what I do.”
“Your body will find a way to heal itself. It has a memory.” He turned off the lamp. “Your body will remember.”
What matters most is how you walk through the fire. —Charles Bukowski
You have to have some ego.
Ego is ever present. It's there just own it and be
The ego doesn’t have to be destructive, and it doesn’t have to make you lose sight of the real reasons you do what you do. It doesn’t have to go to your head.
The more perspective I got, the more disconnected I became from the pure drive to win and dominate.
find a new balance between running to win and running on wisdom.
Pain has more than one axis.
I was back running. Not elegantly, not with fierceness, not with anything near the speed I’d eventually need. But I was running. If I could just let life happen, everything could work. I didn’t have to win, not yet. I just needed to let myself run.
Bushido, or the “way of the warrior,” which stressed honor, simplicity, and courage.
Every moment contains only one thing: the potential to keep going.
the arts of extracting pleasure from endless struggle and reveling in the gnar.
Finding joyh through the strujggle
Sleep deprivation makes time peel back at the edges;
Your sleep isn’t quite sleep. Your waking isn’t exactly waking. It starts to feel like you’re living your life in a permanent twilight,
the Hundred-Mile Wilderness. “You don’t have to rally at that point,” he’d said, “you just need to keep walking on the AT treadmill, three and a half miles per hour.”
the Hundred-Mile Wilderness stood a sign that read CAUTION. THERE ARE NO PLACES TO OBTAIN SUPPLIES OR GET HELP UNTIL ABOL BRIDGE, 100 MILES NORTH. DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS SECTION UNLESS YOU HAVE A MINIMUM OF 10 DAYS SUPPLIES AND ARE FULLY EQUIPPED. THIS IS THE LONGEST WILDERNESS SECTION OF THE ENTIRE “AT” AND ITS DIFFICULTY SHOULD NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED. GOOD HIKING!
