About halfway across the lake, I realized I could not pretend to swim much longer.

I have felt this, been in this place before, but it has been so long I'm out of practice.

"Is running a religion?"

What I learned first is that bird watching is actually bird-listening.

It is a hard town to visit.

It was like watching them being washed with a refreshing breeze.

I fell enough times that you might think I was practicing falling, and not surfing.

"Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise."

I'm certain real woodsmen don't say things like 'bark crumbs'.

Among all those stories, there were heroes. My brother Douglas was one of them.

...even the bus stops seemed to have ancient relics in them.

I wrote in my journal: "Last night I slept with a man from Pakistan."

Our senses were turned all the way up, and there was nothing between us and the beauty around us.

None of us is promised any number of days, even without tempting fate by scrambling up concrete towers, and so every sunrise is a miracle.

“Solvitur ambulando”. It is a Latin phrase which means "It is solved by walking."

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