Here are some ruts we are forming: going to bed with the sunset and waking up with the sunrise, focusing on being rather than doing, prioritizing a stretching routine

There's also a strange abundance in carrying everything that you need upon your back. Anything other than the essentials become superfluous and left behind.

Solitairy in the evening light, above the spruce and having the red sun, stood Sam. King of the castle.

We easily become jaded in our spirit, thinking that everyone else out there is seeking their own interests. But the spring does not seek its own interest

The ground, then, is a battery of water, a tremendous reservoir that slowly seeps out in the multitudes of springs. A gradual discharge of cumulative abrupt rain events.

I care about calories per ounce, and we all know junk food excells in this realm, but at the same time, I want at least something I eat each day to taste like it came from a farm, not a laboratory

The contradiction and the silliness is kind of the point, I realized. No one said trail names should make perfect sense.

The breeze carried fine particulates, accentuating the blue haze that always rests over these mountains. The scent was tangy and earthy, more pungent on the hilltops.

So as not to post an excessive quantity of content or especially, write too much about myself, in lieu of a journal entry today, I will instead make a series of other posts. 

It somehow sounded as if 11 children hit 11 different-sized plastic bongos at random. This is perfect material for a modern music piece.