Coming home on the trail.

Recovering from more than a dozen major life stressors in recent years, I finally grasp the need for deep rest. Every day on the trail, I travel some of the path to my “un-coerced and un-bullied self” (as the poet David Whyte would put it).  And as John Lubbock, an influential colleague of Charles Darwin who helped establish anthropology in the 19th century, wrote:

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”