[at-l] Grand Unification Theory - WAS:Survival was TrailEtiquette

[rafe.bustin@verizon.net (Raphael Bustin)]

At 09:18 PM 6/4/2002 -0400, Thru-Thinker wrote:

>Shane's points are good ones - even fundamental ones - but part of me
>cannot fully agree.  I have no elegant theory, just a messy line of
>thinking, with its roots in puritanical guilt complexes.


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As usual, the Thru-Thinker nails it nicely.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but in addition to the
beauty and awe of nature, what I see in the woods is
death, and reminders of my own mortality.  I see life in
bewildering abundance, of course, but constant reminders
that life is a fleeting, fragile, ephemeral thing.

Sometimes the best part of the day is kicking back and
reading the shelter register (by tungsten light,) writing
in my diary, or studying the map of the next days' hike.

We're humans.  We write books, we make tools and we
make art.  That's as natural as the trees & hills & rocks &
roots, in my book.


rafe b.
aka terrapin