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Hiking the Burroughs Peaks Trail at Mt Rainier National Park.

"So I continue walking along
the difficult part of this journey
trying to avoid dwelling too much on the end;
Rather, it is time for embracing....
....each enduring attraction still to be discovered."
(from 'An Enduring Attraction' by Doug Scrima)

In the dimming light he smiles with memories of their steep march up to this perfect perch to share with friends while the sandstone burned red about them. This quote is from the poem Last Light by Doug Scrima. Terry Tempest Williams, in The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks shared that her spiritual life is found inside the heart of the wild. Those words resonate with me. I have those feelings when I am on the trail. Those are times that I feel most free as an individual and inspired as an artist. I feel a real sense of joy unburdened by the pressures that seem to hold us back in our day to day routines. Certainly there are physical challenges, but I find that those challenges are what give meaning to the...