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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."

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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.

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