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Category Archives: Reflections
Musings on life based on my personal experiences.
A Nativity Story
I have a very fond childhood memory of a Nativity set that belonged to my dad’s Aunt. Every year we would spend Christmas Eve at her house, and every year I would engross myself in the little white figurines on the hearth, while I waited (sometimes not so patiently) for it to be time to open presents. The Nativity characters were white and made out of porcelain, and had a magnificent blue velvet lining upon which they were placed. And although they were extremely breakable and possessed a lot of sentimental value, I don’t recall ever even coming close to…Read the rest of this entry →
Choosing an Off-season – aka The Importance of Rest
What’s the best part about being a climber in the Southeast? Climbing is a year round sport! What’s the worst part about being a climber in the Southeast? There’s no off-season… I grew up in a family that followed multiple sports – baseball, basketball, volleyball…pretty much everything but football. (And thankfully my hubby never got into football either – which works out well since football season also brings some of the best weather weekends of the year!) I remember that my “favorite” sport would always be whatever sport was currently in season at the time. I remember anxiously awaiting the…Read the rest of this entry →
Sleep in Heavenly Peace
This is not the first time I’ve posted a picture of Cragbaby sleeping, and it probably won’t be the last. He’s just so darn cute when he’s sleeping! I love the irony of an energetic toddler that’s been going 100 miles per hour all morning shift directly into sweet post-lunch snuggle session as he drifts off to dreamland. Go, Run, Explore, Laugh, Love, Live…then, almost without warning – Stop, Relax, Breathe, Rest, Restore, Refresh. This picture was taken just a few days ago when I went in to C’s room to wake him up. Some might accuse me of…Read the rest of this entry →
Dave the Dude 5.11d – From a Dudette’s Perspective…
While every climbing trip we take involves fun and uniqeness, not every trip contains a moment like this one. It’s 5 days later as I write this and my heart still skips a beat when I think about this line. When I first sat down to write up my trip report from last week’s trip to the Red, I knew Dave the Dude deserved way more love than a brief mention in a weekend recap, so I decided to memorialize it as a Classic Climb. Just like the old adage that says you can’t judge a book by its cover,…Read the rest of this entry →
“Not all who wander are lost.” —JRR TOLKIEN