You will not believe this Lucy, but difficult child daughter wants me to hike a very long trail with she and her fifteen year old daughter. The daughter is having a difficult time with everything she has been through with difficult child, and difficult child feels this will save her.
She could be right. This granddaughter is very much more independent than difficult child was herself at fifteen.
This will be a three month, summer expedition. While there is no way I would consider three months, I am seriously considering joining them for the last three weeks. But I have never slept outside, ever. Not even in a tent. I have never done any of the other things you need to do outside if you are somewhere in the wilderness for three weeks, either.
difficult child daughter says that is the purpose.
So, I watched the author of Wild on Oprah Super Soul and am going to read the book.
This is a book, written by a young woman, about recovering ourselves through the challenges of hiking long trails.
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But wasn't that Dean Koontz line about the variety of animals looking at the stars something incredible to think about?
Cedar
Hopefully, I will not be out there in the forest somewhere, looking up at the stars and smelling very much like an animal myself as summer draws to its close this year....
:O)
