The skin of boulders holds onto our touch and tucks rattlesnakes into the earth. Waterfalls pulled the blue of our veins to the near surface as our toes submerged to rocks steamed with glacier water.
Monoglot
Of the many things that embarrass me about being an American abroad—that we’re so loud, that we take up so much space, that we’re so high maintenance—what most embarrasses me is my functional inability to speak anything but English.
Memory as Watercolor
Memory as Watercolor by Lawrence Bridges.
A Bath in the Forest
For the last 15 years, I’ve been a city-dweller and I’ve started to feel semi-captive, a condition the naturalist John Muir described as “tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized.”
My Waterloo
I’m a one-hundred-percent-rational adult, but I feel delightfully off-balance as I realize I’m walking toward my destiny – the new horoscopes for the upcoming Year of the Rat.
And Now It’s Here
Quite a few people have used Mallory’s words to talk about the need to overcome a challenge, the drive to prove oneself, but the same impulse would seem to guide travelers, explorers, road trippers, even when challenge isn’t part of the equation.
Wanderlust 