"American naturalist Sigurd Olson said that years of walking through wild country had taught him a great deal about traveling light. Backpackers learn, sometimes the hard way, that simplicity is always a question of knowing what to leave behind. This is a desert truth, translatable to the rest of one's life as well. The spiritual path, as Meister Eckhart observed, has more to do with subtraction than with addition. It is not so much a matter of adding all the active virtues to one's practice of living as of relinquishing everything that can possibly be abandoned. How much can you leave behind? That is the desert's question." (Belden C. Lane. The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
pp. 166-167).

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Chronic illness in the form of first undiagnosed and then undertreated hypothyroidism had grounded me for years. As I slowly got my meds right I could finally exercise again. Sitting by a stream on New Year’s Eve 2020 on a greenway walk, I knew I needed more outside in my life.

Less than a year later, I decided to do the Alabama Trailblaze challenge for Make-A-Wish…. (Continued in comments)

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Trail run up both Glassy mountains this morning followed by walking the dog to the river, and I officially passed my 500th recorded mile (combined hiking, trail running, and walking, but mostly hiking and trail running). That was the goal I’d set for this year adding almost 200 miles to last year’s recorded movement total of 307 miles.

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Hiked 14.5 miles yesterday and saw some lovely things

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Got a CT scan to determine whether or not I’m detailing with a chronic sinus infection, and then stole away to get in a few miles solo at Bledsoe Creek.

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