14: Doing too much…
Misti “Do not do more today that you can completely recover from today. Do not do more this week than you can completely recover from this week.” – Greg McKeown
13: Florida!!!
My personal opinion is that there should be no Taylor Swift on this song, only Florence + The Machine. It’s Florence’s song all the way.
Florida
Is one hell of a drug
Florida
Can I use you up?
12: “To Peacefully Petition”
Protesting the slaughter of innocents as casualties of war is not antisemitic just as marching in the streets against the Vietnam War was not anti-American. When a student rally to support Palestinians was organized for the University of Texas campus, the state’s governor had troopers from the Department of Public Safety immediately dispatched to break up the gathering, although there had been no apparent violations of the law or violence by anyone present. The governor, however, had more than 100 DPS officers at the ready to move in with riot gear and disrupt the student assembly. These are the same officers, who, under Abbott’s control, were unable to raise a gun against a mass murderer at a public school in Uvalde. UT reportedly has about $50 million invested in arms manufacturers and pressuring the administration to divest was a central cause of the protest.
11: Blackwater Rivers
Ode to Blackwater Rivers — With Taylor Brown via the Batch Podcast from The Bitter Southerner
10: How to Be Alone – Quote #2
And now I have nothing but unbelievable luxury in front of me: a hotel room all to myself for the entire night, a bag of gummy candy in my resupply box, a bathtub that’s practically big enough for me to swim laps in, and it feels, for the first time since I started this hike, that everything might be okay.
How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail
by Nicole Antoinette
9: How to Be Alone – Quote #1
This is long-distance hiking, I think: hours of intense effort and physical discomfort followed by blissful moments of laying down and shoving salty snacks in your mouth.
How To Be Alone: an 800-mile hike on the Arizona Trail
by Nicole Antoinette
8: Sometimes
Sometimes
melancholy leaves me breathless.
From Sometimes by Mary Oliver
7: Same as it ever was…
Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people, by the people, but a government of Wall Street, for Wall Street, by Wall Street. The great common people of the country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. The west and south are bound and prostrate before the manufacturing east. Money rules and our vice-president is a London banker. – Mary Elizabeth Lease
6: Trail Writing – The Green Tunnel
I really appreciated this episode of the green tunnel talking about the history of trail writing, from fiction to non-fiction and beyond that to capturing the music of the Appalachian mountains.
5: Huberman Scam??
Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control via NY Mag
With repeated listening to the podcast, one discerns a man undergoing, in public, an effort to understand himself. There are hours of talking about addiction, trauma, dopamine, and fear. Narcissism comes up consistently. One can see attempts to understand and also places where those attempts swerve into self-indulgence.