What hiking teaches us.... WAS Where is everyone... WAS RE: [at-l]that one website...

[tinman at antigravitygear.com (George (Tin Man) Andrews)]

Shelly.
Sorry for the upheaval in your life right now but those are words to live 
by.  Especially #4.  Just remember there are times you should let others 
help carry your pack.  Remember the Chatooga River Trail?

BTW Felix, I've been the hell right here just busy as all get out.  :)
Tin Man

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shelly Hale" <shellydhale@earthlink.net>
To: "'Felix J. McGillicuddy'" <athiker@smithville.net>; "'AT-List'" 
<at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:14 AM
Subject: What hiking teaches us.... WAS Where is everyone... WAS RE: 
[at-l]that one website...


> Felix wrote:  (Where the hell IS everyone anyway?)
>
> Where have I been?  Welp, I've been a fair bit busy ... moving...  I'm
> moving out on my own... working on divorce...
>
> Going through all of this... I've fallen back to the many lessons that
> hiking has taught me.  Here's just a few that come to mind right off...
>
> 1)  There are times along our journey where we have to dig down deep and
> come face to face with what we have to do to survive.
>
> 2)  We gotta be flexible, roll with the punches, and see the challenge in
> the changes along the way.
>
> 3)  We gotta lose all that crap, baggage, excess weight.  Stop stockpiling
> stuff you ain't gonna use. Tuckerize your mind, heart, body, soul... not
> just your pack.
>
> 4)  Friends will rise to the occasion when you are in need...and when you
> least expect it.
>
> 5)  Trail magic comes in all forms... and in all walks of life.  Pride
> sometimes hinders us from fully appreciating the generosity of humankind,
> but we have to learn to accept that which is freely given.
>
> 6)  There lies before me a path I've not trod before, and I... for the 
> first
> time in a long time... am excited by all its possibilities.
>
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