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  • hand drawn chart showing two interpretations of life The Loop Routes That Don’t Show Up On The Map

    by brendan on August 27, 2020

    Last Friday afternoon, I locked my bike to a sign next to the trail and…

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  • hand-drawn line chart comparing dealing with my shit vs distracting myself with some other shit A Psychologist Rates The Strategies I Use To Deal With Stress And Anxiety

    by brendan on July 9, 2020

    Like you, I am trying to get better at dealing with stress and anxiety. I…

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    by brendan on June 18, 2020

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  • handwritten text Why We Can Still Listen To “What’s Going On” 50 Years Later

    by brendan on June 4, 2020

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    by brendan on May 21, 2020

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  • handwritten title: How to win when there's no finish line How To Win When There’s No Finish Line

    by brendan on May 7, 2020

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  • hand-drawn title box reading "An illustrated story about anxiety" An Illustrated Story About Anxiety

    by brendan on April 23, 2020

                      —Brendan Thanks for reading. If you’d…

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  • drawing of two possible results of a bicycle jump: glory, and comedy A Bicycle Crash

    by brendan on March 19, 2020

    In my memory of the house, which is from when I was much smaller, the…

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  • How To Show Up

    by brendan on February 13, 2020

    I looked at the menu at a booth in Morg’s, a diner in Waterloo, Iowa,…

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  • drawing of a sweatshirt reading "practice maximum enthusiasm" Make 2020 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm

    by brendan on December 26, 2019

    Note: I first wrote and published this post on December 29, 2011, calling it “Make…

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  • Choose Wonder

    by brendan on November 21, 2019

    The South Rim of the Grand Canyon can be a magical place: You stand with…

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  • Remember When We Were Young?

    by brendan on April 25, 2019

    Mark and I sat in the front window of a Denver coffee shop, talking about…

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  • Morning Rituals For The Reasonably Productive And Moderately Successful

    by brendan on March 27, 2019

    You may have heard or read a lot about the morning rituals of high-functioning people—CEOs,…

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  • drawing of ski boots with wings Ski Boots Are Ridiculous, Long Live Ski Boots

    by brendan on March 21, 2019

    You know what this ritual feels like: You loosen every buckle on your ski boots,…

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  • drawn graph showing how much less things suck with a friend along Yes, A Friend Can Make Miserable Things Less Miserable

    by brendan on March 14, 2019

    I trudge forward, the muddy road tugging at my running shoes, splattering my ankles and…

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  • drawing of brendan leonard writing on a laptop Lessons From Eight Years Of Writing An Adventure Blog

    by brendan on February 14, 2019

    One afternoon last August, a delivery truck rolled up outside my house in Denver. Two…

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  • chart showing the upward trend in distraction and the downward trend in actually thinking Experience The Joy of Not Bringing The Noise

    by brendan on January 24, 2019

    Here’s a crazy story: I spent four and a half hours outdoors alone the other…

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  • drawing of a sweatshirt that says "practice maximum enthusiasm" Make 2019 The Year Of Maximum Enthusiasm

    by brendan on December 27, 2018

    Note: I first wrote and published this post on December 29, 2011, calling it “Make…

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  • drawing of a piece of paper with the word moments written on it A Simple Way To Write Your Own Ending To 2018

    by brendan on December 13, 2018

    If you’re anything like most of us, another year ending means a lot of things:…

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  • a runner and a child finish the 2018 UTMB ultramarathon Why Finish Lines Will Get You Every Time

    by brendan on November 29, 2018

    I didn’t know why it happened. I was doing OK until the guy with the…

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  • drawing of a stick figure meditating and a stick figure running I’m Meditating (I’m Just Not Sitting Down)

    by brendan on November 8, 2018

    I tried. For a while, it seemed like everyone was talking about how meditation changed…

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  • wedding photos by Sagar Gondalia Gratitude And An Honest Mountain Wedding

    by brendan on October 11, 2018

    Here’s one thing we always say about weddings: “It’s the biggest day of your life.”…

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  • university of montana campus Nostalgia Is A Mother

    by brendan on July 26, 2018

    Last Wednesday, around the ninth switchback in the M Trail at the University of Montana,…

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  • Learning to be funny is like climbing Learning To Be Funny

    by brendan on June 28, 2018

    Probably every other time my friend Lee and I came to the end of an…

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  • illustration of cell reception bars in front of mountains What Happens When You Leave Cell Service Behind

    by brendan on June 21, 2018

    Here’s a thing you may have experienced: You’re about to head out on a trip…

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  • Summit Day

    by brendan on May 17, 2018

    A couple hundred feet from the top of Avalanche Gulch on Mount Shasta last Monday…

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  • The Gas Tank is 1/4 Full Or 3/4 Empty The Gas Tank Is 1/4 Full, Or 3/4 Empty

    by brendan on April 26, 2018

    Just east of Green River, Utah, on Interstate 70, I looked over from the passenger…

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