[at-l] icy patch

[Gadog430]

I love you Shells. For all the reason you already know. And all the ones you
don't.
:)

Dawg




----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelly Hale" <shellydhale at earthlink.net>
To: "'Ryan Brooks'" <ryan at hack.net>; "'AT-list'" <at-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] icy patch


> Thank you for sharing the link, Ryan.
>
> You know so often the trails, woods, nature, et al, it gives us what we
> need--sometimes even when we don't know what it is or that we even need
> anything at all.
>
> If we go out there looking for something specific, we don't always find
it.
> And, I think that is because we truly aren't ready for it--and somehow the
> greater forces that be know this.  However, when we least expect it but
are
> ready for it... "trail magic" is simply bestowed upon us.
>
> How many of us have found ourselves...when in the real world we somehow
> faded into the every day way of things?
>
> Been given courage...like to cross a stream when we can't swim or jump
> boulders when we're afraid to fall?
>
> Find that long lost self-esteem because we conquered that mountain
> climb...or walked over 2000 miles or did something else when others didn't
> think we could or the pain told us to stop?
>
> Some have even found the love of their life out there when all hope of
ever
> being able or capable of loving was gone.
>
> And, you know what else?  I don't know exactly what it is about the woods
> that allows us to be in a more accepting state and prepared for our
"magical
> gifts."
>
> Perhaps it is the serenity of nature that allows us to let our guards down
> that we erect in the noisy and distracting civilization cluttered with
> emotional, mental, and physical baggage and trash.
>
> Perhaps it is that the woods are "real" and we somehow translate that into
> an ability to become real and genuine again as we once were as children.
>
> Perhaps it is that the beauty of nature touches us in such a way that we
> again let our hearts beat and FEEL.  We remember how to breathe.  And,
> remember life is to be LIVED.
>
> I choose to live, therefore I hike.
>
> Tenacious (Peyton Manning life-time fan) Tanasi
> Shell-no e-(GO COLTS!!!)y
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:at-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On
> Behalf Of Ryan Brooks
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 1:00 PM
> To: AT-list
> Subject: [at-l] icy patch
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/magazine/04Lives.t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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