May 27
I spent the summers of my teens and early 20s in the Catskills and have so many fond memories of my time there. These are special mountains, full of trout streams and rolling hills and history.
I wish I could say that I love them.
Yeah, I too wish I could think of a better title for this post. But, it's true. Spring has finally gotten here (hello, longest winter EVER!).
And now it's time to be outside and play. The sun is shining, the weather is warmer (mid-60s today) and the flowers are all in bloom. It's pretty much amazing.
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
'I happen to like New York. I happen to like this town. I like the city air, I like to drink of it. The more of I know New York, the more I think of it.'
I recently read about one women's focus for the year, boiling it down to a 10-work plan. I felt inspired to boil it all down.
Here's mine:
I've never been a huge fan of New Year's -- it just seems fraught with high expectations, over priced food and drink and a whole bunch of amateurs crowding the streets. And then everyone and their hermana reflects back on the past year, makes resolutions for the new year, then writes about it. Not for me. Maybe because it seems so arbitrary to me, versus the solstice, which actually is something.
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to tour the Eastside Access, which is a huge public works project, building tunnels 120 feet below the surface in order to move people in and out of Manhattan. It won't actually be open until 2019. I was able to visit as part of my work, since one end of the tunnel is behind my organization’s building, thus as part of a courtesy of having to deal with blastings and the whole building shaking on occasion, we get a tour on occasion.
During my recent trekking adventure in Oregon that was nothing like I thought it was going to be, I realized that there are some important life lessons that I could take from the experience. Here are my 5 lessons from trekking.
I will never be a fashion icon. And if you scan through the pictures of my travels, you will see that I also have a pretty limited wardrobe. I wear the same things.... a lot. I mean, sure, I lived out of a backpack for a year.
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