nostalgic tic

life was easy.

05/20/2006

The first walk into Storm King. Could we have known it was the beginning of many, many beautiful things?


Only a month earlier Southern Run. A week later was JOTR '06.
A month later was Starscape, and the start of the most perfect of summers. I'm so happy you were there.

didg-er-i-doo.

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous." -Margot Fonteyn

take a walk

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus

once we went to bear mountain

Ernie was stressing. He'd been in the throes of an existential crisis for weeks, desperately seeking some sort of meaning, some sort of purpose for the simple life he'd been living. Swimming, eating, sleeping, Ernie enjoyed all these things, but he couldn't help but feel there was something more important to strive for. What was it? Where could he find it? Bert worried for his friend. He couldn't help but notice that Ernie had developed a somewhat peculiar habit in the last several weeks. Every hour, Ernie would submerge his head underwater with inexplicable intensity, only to reappear after several minutes to solemnly declare, "There's just more water Bert. That's all there is. That's it Bert. Just more water."

"Poor old Ernie", thought Bert. He just could not figure out why Ernie ever expected to find anything else.