Hmmm... Found my achilles heel, Being in-between. I have lived my life passionately. Always sought that out as a core. Yet always had problems when I was in the in-between part. I am in a good relationship, and in a good space living wise. Yet this weekend, freaked out. No real reason, then just feeling a million miles away from my lover... Just ( Read more... )

Well, I have noticed that I have become a trail journal voyer. Most of this summer I have been following this guy named Pete as he was hiking north on the PCT. I watched his pictures as he started north from Campo in the desert and made his way to the Sierra Nevada range. It hit me when I stopped at Lassen, I was just watching someone else do what ( Read more... )

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The following is an outline to an essay I am writing. I am doing much more research on it, so as to add many different elements and examples in actual northwest hikes and mountains. But if you have any input that would be great to hear ( Read more... )

There are some things that I realize that ground me. Lately, I have came into contact with alot of them. Little know to the swirling realities of life, and the constant soap opera of inter personal relationships with friends. Sometimes you just have to step out into the mountains, and see something so enduring that time and cares seem to slow and ( Read more... )

There is this book that I have been meaning to read by Pema Chodron called When Things Fall Apart. This book which is written by a bhikkhuni (Buddhist Nun)of the Western Buddhist Order, has a certain pull to me from the past, present, and future. First of all the title seems to call to me as things that have recently went on in my life. Things last ( Read more... )

I sit in a tea shop, listening to Becca, as she talks about the tea in india. Around me the comings and goings of life caught in a Seattle summer. The sounds of chinese opera weaving thought the air. In many ways, like the last month, today has a sense of new magic, that has long since been felt in my world. Seattle seems new. There are some new ( Read more... )

Well, it has been awhile since I last posted. I have figured that I would like to start using this resource again to try and collect and focus some of my thoughts on things ( Read more... )