“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out…
We didn’t mean to walk in the rain. We’d hoped to get it in before the skies opened up, but our timing proved wrong. Amor fati. We accepted our fate and carried on. The drizzle soon turned to a shower, and then a downpour. She shook off the water accumulating on her coat and looked…
“It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” — Rumi When you break down distances into bite-sized chunks, they don’t seem all that bad. To walk 250 miles over the course of roughly two months I needed to average 35 miles per week,…
August of another summer, and once againI am drinking the sunand the lilies again are spread across the water.I know now what they want is to touch each other. — Mary Oliver, The Pond As we head into the dog days of summer, I find myself with a good dog to share walks with. Puppy…
So easily forgotten are the most important thingsLike the melody and the moonlight in your eyesAnd a song that lasts forever, keeps on gettin’ betterAll the time— Keb’ Mo, Life Is Beautiful Walking a lot of miles lately, I’ve come to see the town I live in at ground level, turning corners into places I…
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I set out on an early morning walk fully prepared to listen to a podcast through noise-cancelling headphones for…
Kenoza! O’er no sweeter lakeShall morning break, or moon-cloud sail,No lighter wave than thine shall takeThe sunset’s golden veil.— John Greenleaf Whittier, Kenoza Whittier wrote this poem for the dedication for a beautiful lake in Haverhill, Massachusetts that was to be named Kenoza Lake. Kenoza means “lake of the pickerel” in the native Algonquian language,…
“I believe that happiness is, it’s really a default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life. We are highly judgmental, survival, and replication machines. We are constantly walking around thinking I need this, I need that, trapped in the web of desires. Happiness is that state…
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:I love not Man the less, but Nature more,From these our interviews, in which I stealFrom all I may be, or have been before,To mingle with the Universe,…
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” — Henry Miller There’s no better time to practice stoicism than during business travel using the uniquely out-of-your-own-control limbo of domestic flights. Short…