Solitude
Alone perhaps?
Mist envelopes me
Isolating me with Nature
Connection made within
Peace returns
Gratitude

I wrote this “Diamont” while sitting alone atop Spy Rock, a bare rock in southwest Virginia on the Appalachian Trail.  I was feeling lonely, not getting a connection on my cell phone as I usually had at that spot.  So, I challenged [...]

For months now, I’ve been saying, as if it were really true, “I get paid for hiking.”  For months, I’ve walked on short trails and long trails.  As far as I could tell, no one was paying me to do it.

Nevertheless, I continued to say, “I get paid for hiking.”  And, “I hike in service [...]