Call me when you get there, she’d say. I’d roll my eyes and spout out my typical response assuring her that I knew how to drive safely, and “no news is good news”.
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I’m not lucky, yet I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told how lucky I am.
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You’ve gained too much weight. You should be thinner. You should be exercising today. You need to lose weight to be more attractive. Don’t post that picture, it makes you look chubby...
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Why walk through life when you can run?
When you can hop, skip, and jump...
For no real reason at all other than because it makes you smile.
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Go with the flow. Bend with the wind. Sway with the grass. Adapt. Adjust. Pivot.
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Dreams don’t come easily, but they do come. This is my dream, and it started 5 years ago when I first began spending time in the desert.
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As I walked in the shadows of these mountains
I thought to myself today
I’m definitely a desert girl
But I sure do love the San Juans
And I thought about how easy it is
To think things have to be so black and white
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When you’re lucky enough
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I just came back from somewhere
That I never should have been
What started as an adventure
A quest to find future spots to park
To live in a van
Down by a river, as people like to say
Turned into a journey to find my way back
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Life by design. Every aspect thought out. Every decision made with intention. Every turn taken with a destination in mind. Every choice a chance. Every chance a choice. And they’ve all led me here. To saying goodbye. Sayonara. Namaste.
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You don’t get out of life what you want; you get out of life what you are.
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The responsibility of raising a son has never pulled so heavily on me. The weight of knowing that I am solely responsible for shaping this small human into the person that he will become for the rest of his life.
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We all sense it. Day after day, there seems to be a growing disconnect between people. You walk down the sidewalk and the person coming toward you quickly averts their eyes to avoid eye contact. You sit down on a plane and the person next to you pops in earbuds to stave off any efforts at small talk. You’re hiking up a trail in the wilderness and the person coming down the trail passes right by without even a nod of the head to acknowledge the shared passion for the dirt beneath your boots.
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For those of us that spend every minute of our free time exploring the wonders of nature, one of the greatest lures is a rumor of an amazing spot that most have never heard of or a photo shared on social media of a place that looks like an oasis that is just calling our names. Possibly a narrow slot canyon in the depths of the Utah deserts with a clear creek running through the high, red walls and sunlight shining down and illuminating a sandy floor that shows little evidence of human footprints…
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We’ve all noticed it by now. A chill in the air in the early mornings, the need to bring an extra layer if we’re out later in the evenings, reports of snow falling in the high country, and, if you’re me, the hail that fell in the desert a few days ago when an unexpected storm rolled through.
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I can tell you where it began. Where I discovered the wild inside of me. I don’t mean the kind of wild that is made up of late nights in big cities or college parties filled with keg stands and never ending beer pong. Nor do I mean the kind of wild that involves fast cars, bad decisions, and oftentimes regret. To me, wild means something else…
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