Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.
-John Muir

and with that, i wander back into missouri.
see you

things seem to be falling into place. it's kind of interesting how events have panned out ( Read more... )

have you ever wondered what it would be like to be completely alone? not in the crazy emotional "no one cares about me" sense, but physically alone. this weekend I'm going to go on a sixteen mile solo-backpacking trip. it's still up in the air whether or not this is a good idea, but i'm optimistic about it. i was just contemplating how odd it is ( Read more... )

i can't wait to get out of this city and back into the woods.

you have good days and you have bad days.
yesterday, 3.75 miles in 29:30.
today, 3.75 miles in 26:50.
fifty degrees, sunny, light breeze.
ballin.

i put it frankly:
i apologize for telling your business.
i don't apologize for helping my friend learn the fucking truth.

okay. maybe i overreacted. ...again.
i feel much better after getting rest.
and ran five miles in 40:01.
it's ridiculously slow, but i have to start somewhere!
hahaha!
eighteen days until my last class!

my muscles are shot. and i don't know why ( Read more... )

this is the best passage i have read in a LONG time ( Read more... )

thirty-seven days is all that is left. i can hardly believe this. a little over a month from now i will graduate from metro. may twenty-second i'll move out. i'll be back in potosi to work at camp for the summer. come august sixth i'll finish up with mini-camp, and then it'll be back home for a little over a week, and then i'll move to kirksville. ( Read more... )