[at-l] Naked Hiking

[shane at theplacewithnoname.com (Shane)]

>> Who stole them from you?

> Anyone recall the moment or the final occurrence when someone told you
> "grow up" because you were acting "free" and that adult took it to be
> acting "silly" and you "grew up" and put the "free-silliness" behind you?

Mrs. Barnes.  6th grade English teacher.  In the end, she didn't win.  ;)

> Remember:  It's NEVER too late to have a happy childhood.  All you do
> is locate that child within and free it from all the "shoulds" and "ought
tos"
> and "don'ts" and such.

Yep.

http://www.theplacewithnoname.com/hiking/sections/philosophy/broken.htm

> Maybe that's why as a group we backpack and hike and go into the
> woods and forests and wilderness areas as adults.  We're looking for that
> "free-silliness" to come home to stay inside our souls.

Oh!  I like that.  Mind if I steal it?

> Shall we start a list of hikers who will hike Nekkid on Hike Naked Day
> next June?

June is a long way away...  I'm going back out in two weekends...

Shane