âYonder were the mountains: The sunlight revealed their tiny heads and wide shoulders, craggy and purple, with small black trees, delicate as eyelashes, on their slopes.â â Paul Theroux
It never ceases to amaze me the ways in which life can manage to not only survive, but thrive.
As an educator, I have worked with countless students, including those who come from the most anemic backgrounds â impoverished in experiences, impoverished in love and emotional support, or impoverished financially. Miraculously, many of those disadvantaged students still manage to not only survive their hardscrabble circumstances, but also find enough sustenance outside of their own rocky home life for growth.
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âThere is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!â â Mehmet Murat Ildan
The dawning of the day brought forth memories of the day before: light sweat forming, the sound of heavy breathing, the curves of mountainous proportions, the ups and downs, and the taste of sweetness at having reached one incredible summit. I wanted to do it again. Was it love?
Not exactly. Instead, I was recalling the hikes from the previous day, including one short, but incredibly steep trek up to the top of Mount Mitchell, the highest peak in the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River. There is a reason the slogan âThe mountains are callingâ has been popularized!