gulch green gulch

if i could hike for a living, i would. i always love the hike through green gulch zen center and up through muir beach and tennessee valley. if it's one thing i regret not doing more of during my time in northern california, it's the hikes, or rather, seeing and being with nature. but it's ok, there is time and i will be back up here more times than i can plan on.

communication breakdown

Acquaintance: emails.
Loose alliance: texts.
Friendship: cell phone.
Intimacy: land line.

-Elizabeth Trundle

in most cases, if we're not face to face or hearing the tone of each others' voices, words are very easily misconstrued. text messages and emails can be tone deaf, especially if they're being exchanged with strangers. so we judge each other with these shallow first impressions by constructing preconceived notions about how a person is and attach these notions to who we think they are without really getting to know them. everyone has good in them, but everyone also has their shortcomings, faults, flaws, insecurities...

most of us are trying our best to BE the best we can be, but that doesn't mean we don't stumble and err once in a while. 

wildflowerz

Hike #2,354. Nah, I exaggerate. I have been doing a ton amount of hiking lately, though. If I'm ever missing, look for me on the way up to some mountain, dry heaving. Or maybe on the way down, falling from having tripped on my own feet.

My friend Tiffany, little Benson, and I braved the heat and hiked up Arroyo Seco. It actually wasn't bad considering it was cloudy a part of the way up and shady on most parts. I've been through hotter hikes which makes me wonder why I do such things to myself. The trails are shared with mountain bikers and with some being narrow, I'd panic a little when I would hear one coming, but they'd always warn us when there was another trailing behind them. At some point, we stopped to rest amidst some tall grass and we startled a guy. He fell off his bike, but he was a trooper about it despite the bruised ego. Everyone was polite and friendly nonetheless.

I've never gone mountain biking, but like so many other things, I'd like to try it sometime.

l'été est arrivé

summer's here and i've got the outdoors on my mind. not that there aren't things to do in the wintertime... i'd like to try snowboarding/skiing some time. my friends always brag about how much fun it is. as long as there's a low chance of avalanches, i'm up for it.

in the meantime, i'll make the most of the daylight lasting longer. i'm still in the middle of the city, but pocketed within it are glimpses of nature, wondermous nature to trample on. i mean, hike... on. it's an odd notion, though, for "nature" to be in the midst of a concrete jungle. it feels superficial, but at the least, i have a place to get away to in a short amount of time.