myBloog

Driving around Seneca lake, upstate NY. Winter 2010.

Is there anything healthier than being backpacking alone in the wilderness with no human contact? focusing your energy on what you feel/see around you? embracing the subtle of nature's best creations: plants, insects, rocks?

"Being my last night on the trail, it's hard not to reflect on all that I've experienced. I've known much solitude on the journey, but what's truths have I found in the silence of wilderness? I've found that one's dreams are worth pursuing, and when done so with patience, perseverance, and the hope and optimism out of which those dreams arise, they can and will come true. That is important that we believe in ourselves and believe in our dreams. I've found that in the silence one comes to know oneself. That by divesting ourselves of the general mayhem of the modern world, we can once more hear, and learn to listen to, that guiding voice within all us; an by seeking that silence in nature, not only will we learn about ourselves but of the patterns of peace as well. There are other treasures and truths I've found, many I can't as yet put into words; others I think are best and most meaningful only to those who find them for themselves. If one is ...

“ If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try” Marianne Moore-