This is a quote I always refer to that sums up my relationship with writing; your opening reminded me of it. Mark Jenkins is the guy who wrote it. One of his books is called "The Hard Way," and he used to write a column with the same name in Outside way back in the days when I used to read (and like) that magazine. If I recall that particular book is a collection of those columns. Anyway, you might relate to this too....
"I cannot get enough of the world. To smell it, walk through it, sink the teeth of my mind into it. I am not a writer who began writing at the age of eight in a little room at a little desk and dreamed of being a novelist. At eight I was flying on a bicycle through the pungent sagebrush in the red hills beyond the edge of town."
I can't remember the last time I read it. They put out an anthology of stories from it a couple years ago and I read a couple and never finished. It its day it was a great magazine but it sure went down the tubes. Good stuff pops up from them online now and then but it's the exception, not the rule, so far as I'm concerned.
Thanks, Chris. I need to be out on my bike like a kid more. Thanks for the validation while I recharge. I got ideas while I was hiking today, for some new stories. Maybe they'll come to fruition.
Thanks. I took a self care day. I drove around to some local spots I've been meaning to look at, then I went to a vegan joint and got a big order of patatas bravas and ate it in the car as I drove to my hiking spot and walked in the sun and pet doggos.
This is a quote I always refer to that sums up my relationship with writing; your opening reminded me of it. Mark Jenkins is the guy who wrote it. One of his books is called "The Hard Way," and he used to write a column with the same name in Outside way back in the days when I used to read (and like) that magazine. If I recall that particular book is a collection of those columns. Anyway, you might relate to this too....
"I cannot get enough of the world. To smell it, walk through it, sink the teeth of my mind into it. I am not a writer who began writing at the age of eight in a little room at a little desk and dreamed of being a novelist. At eight I was flying on a bicycle through the pungent sagebrush in the red hills beyond the edge of town."
Besides an unquenchable thirst for advertising $$$, what's up with Outside magazine? Waded through some so-so dull articles recently.
I liked the articles on the treasure hunters and the New Zealand volcano. I think going fully digital probably hurt.
I can't remember the last time I read it. They put out an anthology of stories from it a couple years ago and I read a couple and never finished. It its day it was a great magazine but it sure went down the tubes. Good stuff pops up from them online now and then but it's the exception, not the rule, so far as I'm concerned.
Thanks, Chris. I need to be out on my bike like a kid more. Thanks for the validation while I recharge. I got ideas while I was hiking today, for some new stories. Maybe they'll come to fruition.
Also, Pungent Sagebrush is my new dancer name.
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That’s wonderful about breaking 600, congrats! Very excited to read about your kilted adventures but most importantly -- take care of yourself.
Thanks. I took a self care day. I drove around to some local spots I've been meaning to look at, then I went to a vegan joint and got a big order of patatas bravas and ate it in the car as I drove to my hiking spot and walked in the sun and pet doggos.