“I do like to go in the mountains when it is very rough. To feel the nature scratching you, it’s good, I think.”
—Faroese pastor and trail runner Sverri Steinholm (video)
“Traveling to or through difficult-to-access places is rarely easy or straightforward. At some point it’s going to get downright difficult, if not seemingly impossible. I relish these moments more now than ever before: I can’t google the answer; Can’t call information and ask them what to do; Can’t call ‘time out,’ can’t push a button and be transported elsewhere. I have to put the brakes on, slow down ’til I am here and nowhere else, and figure out a solution. Often that means grin and bear it, and move a few feet every few minutes. Sometimes it means retreat and find a better way. Occasionally it means sit down and wait for something to change. Any one of the above is priceless.”
Stand-up paddling the Colorado River, source to sea
18 of the World’s Most Delightful Airport Features (including Milwaukee’s used/rare bookstore!)
Letter of Recommendation: Washing Dishes
“It’s the, ah, yellow thing, with a peel, stuck to a bunch of other ones, it’s a fruit, uh …”
“Kathy washed the fossilized bones in the sink on the back porch, lay them on the basement ping-pong table amid her collected agates and quartz and wondered: Who do you call when you find a dinosaur?”
A post from the Semi-Rad archives this week: Do You Have Obsessive Campfire Adjustment Syndrome?
—Brendan