[at-l] Fwd: Journals...

[Mark Hudson]

I might have posted this one before. I still like it, wish I always wrote
this well. It's from my second LT hike in '97.

And no, I don't plan to flood the list with these things, I only plan to
send these two...
skeeter


The little things on this trip are starting to add up; the happiness of a
flat stretch of trail, a place to sit in the sun, a view. I awoke this
morning dreaming of pizza, I hike noticing how my feet feel and where I
place them. I'm on a schedule where time has no meaning; you awake, you eat,
you hike until you're hungry and stop and eat again, you hike until you're
tired, then stop. You do this again the next day, and the next, until it
seems an unbreaking rhythm, "the essential facts of life" (H. D. Thoreau).
To take yourself past tired, to that quiet place in your soul, where you can
sit and listen to the wind in the trees and the rhythm of your own
breathing. The Native Americans speak of The Great Spirit; this matching of
rhythms, returning to nature, must bring one close to the spirit.


skeeter
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