Slackcountry Snow
Then I pointed my skis over the edge and leaned forward so my weight eased me into the wide couloir, and it felt like I was plummeting and the snow exploding around me like a warzone.
Then I pointed my skis over the edge and leaned forward so my weight eased me into the wide couloir, and it felt like I was plummeting and the snow exploding around me like a warzone.
I haven’t outgrown my loneliness, but I do think I’m growing into my own solitude.
I see you, O Downcast Man, sitting in the passenger’s seat. Chances are, you’re wondering how you got here.
Sisyphus may roll his stone, but I have my morning alarm.
I think sometimes being a runner has trained me too well to use that overrule, to endure whatever path lies before me, to be patient to a fault—to stay the course when the course is going to kill me.
Reading the news well and responding to it is not everything, but it is something—and so I won’t refuse.
When I put pen to paper, there’s only room for one thought at a time. Every thought is on equal footing.
I don’t believe in a god anymore. This wasn’t without cost, and there was grief, naturally. But after grief comes normalcy. Also, humour.
Remember: you have more time to do the things you want to do than you might think.
Never had I been overcome with such a surge of euphoria accompanied by petrifying fear and grief.