hiking

screw your courage to the sticking-place

"How may a man be born again and a blasted land made to bloom anew? Why, screw your courage to the sticking-place: dare to ask terrifying questions, and you may be answered." - Russell Kirk, from Eliot & His Age: T.S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century

camping in the Shenadoah National Park

 bacon & coffee.

 Camp tea is the best tea of all tea. (I know...my hat is goofy.)

 

Photos by the amazing Heather Boerum.

Russian equivalent to "the grass is always greener on the other side"

"Хорошо там где нас нет."

English translation: "It is better where we are not."

send your angels down

[Gillian Welch, "Caleb Meyer"]

辛苦中有幸福

辛苦中有幸福 

happiness in the midst of difficulty

Hat Tip: Rachel

i'm a very lucky girl

["On a Roll" by Over the Rhine]

This oyster is my world 

My oyster’s got a pearl 

This ain’t no dress rehearsal 

I’m a very lucky girl 

I’m on a roll