Just ordered the Walking Gone Wild book! Love this stack!!! Thanks again Sari 🌲 What a great way to start a new year: a new book!
At the new 2024 moment, the pervasive seasonal sheep-herding into ‘resolutions’ makes me itch; haven’t I done a lot right to even survive this dog of a year? (Feels like seven years…) Just going to clock that …
Just ordered the Walking Gone Wild book! Love this stack!!! Thanks again Sari 🌲 What a great way to start a new year: a new book!
At the new 2024 moment, the pervasive seasonal sheep-herding into ‘resolutions’ makes me itch; haven’t I done a lot right to even survive this dog of a year? (Feels like seven years…) Just going to clock that for now.
But with a big travel goal on the rapidly nearing horizon, I can use some inspiration and role models to get into the shape I will need to be in. Reinforcements required!
Many years ago I was literally on a part of the NW Pacific Crest Trail during a time of great change and decisions to be made about my life’s direction. I had no sane vigorous senior women in my life to set an example of where I wanted to go. Was it even possible?
Then I saw a lone hiker come up the trail, she was easily 40 years my elder. She was well-equipped but not ostentatiously, vigorous but not rushed, and completely at one in the alpine meadows but still friendly. Suddenly I knew. This was exactly it. And you know what? It’s still IT! It’s the essence of what makes me sob with joy every damn time I am up there! The extraneous things I was deliberating then (corporate job, reproduction? that relationship) have all melted away. The mountain remains.
I’m pretty sure she was real, but it’s possible that I was just given an apparition of my ANSWER.
I didn’t know any women like that then, but we’re all over now. And hoping to be a version of inspiration paying forward too.
I really get the whole idea of representation now. It’s getting better. ‘If you see it, you can be it.’
It occurs to me that this Substack group is the most significant and enriching reading of my entire last year. Kudos Sari. You’re awesome!
Ali, I'm so happy to know this moved you, and that you bought a book after reading it. (Yay, Oldster, selling books!) And I'm so touched that Oldster is such a positive factor for you. Thank you for your enthusiasm and support! <3
Just ordered the Walking Gone Wild book! Love this stack!!! Thanks again Sari 🌲 What a great way to start a new year: a new book!
At the new 2024 moment, the pervasive seasonal sheep-herding into ‘resolutions’ makes me itch; haven’t I done a lot right to even survive this dog of a year? (Feels like seven years…) Just going to clock that for now.
But with a big travel goal on the rapidly nearing horizon, I can use some inspiration and role models to get into the shape I will need to be in. Reinforcements required!
Many years ago I was literally on a part of the NW Pacific Crest Trail during a time of great change and decisions to be made about my life’s direction. I had no sane vigorous senior women in my life to set an example of where I wanted to go. Was it even possible?
Then I saw a lone hiker come up the trail, she was easily 40 years my elder. She was well-equipped but not ostentatiously, vigorous but not rushed, and completely at one in the alpine meadows but still friendly. Suddenly I knew. This was exactly it. And you know what? It’s still IT! It’s the essence of what makes me sob with joy every damn time I am up there! The extraneous things I was deliberating then (corporate job, reproduction? that relationship) have all melted away. The mountain remains.
I’m pretty sure she was real, but it’s possible that I was just given an apparition of my ANSWER.
I didn’t know any women like that then, but we’re all over now. And hoping to be a version of inspiration paying forward too.
I really get the whole idea of representation now. It’s getting better. ‘If you see it, you can be it.’
It occurs to me that this Substack group is the most significant and enriching reading of my entire last year. Kudos Sari. You’re awesome!
Ali, I'm so happy to know this moved you, and that you bought a book after reading it. (Yay, Oldster, selling books!) And I'm so touched that Oldster is such a positive factor for you. Thank you for your enthusiasm and support! <3
Yes! Representation!!! That’s what I felt reading this.