Tad
Lessons in the Lines of Sad Songs You didn't realize the way you would live on in us An empty space at the altar Occupied by all our...
Reason 31
"What are you passionate about?" It was the first thing she asked me when we finally got talking on our own. Straight through the...
Naked Hiker Great Sand Dune National Park, Co
Too Loud. Too Quiet. Too Blunt. Too Passive. Too Emotional. Too Numb. Too Optimistic. Too Negative. I talk too much. I feel too much. I...
Naked Hiker Geierlay Suspension Bridge, Germany
I am on the ceiling. Floating, transparent in this world. Later, I would learn this is called dissociation. After a blow to the head, my...
Naked Hiker Arches National Park, UT
" Do you know how many people would do anything to be in our situation right now? Like a third of the world's population." "Hhmmm. I...
Naked Hiker Rocky Mountains Stream, Co
I know a man who is quite possibly the nicest person I have ever met. He couldn't intentionally hurt a person, even if he wanted to. The...
Reason 28
Unit 76. The best unit. Better than unit 29, 30 or 61. Smack dab on in the center of the 'Bright Side' of Varsity, right by the...
Reason 27
I talk a lot out gravity because I feel like its the only way to describe the pull that some people and places have. I felt it the night ...
Naked Hiker Kai Iwi Lakes, New Zealand
I couldn't figure out why I was so annoyed at the cloudless sky last night. Then I realized it has been a year since that night. The one...
Reason 26
We started at an ancient movie theater that still played film reels and wreaked of fake butter and sticky soda soaked carpet. We started...
Your Side of the Bed
You seem to cross my mind every chance you get; at 11 am and 2 pm In the morning I have to remind myself to make coffee for one You are...
Reason 25
Do you have a favorite book? Mine is 'Oh the Places You Will Go' followed closely by 'Tuesdays With Morrie' and a long list of werewolf...
Naked Hiker Rocky Mountains National Park, CO
"Headed, I fear, toward a most useless of place, the waiting place. For people just waiting. [...] Everyone is just waiting. No! That's...
Naked Hiker Canyons of the Ancients, Co
Tuesdays are for Trivia. Today I needed to leave early. Not because I had something planned, just because I needed to. There was tugging...
Naked Hiker Mesa Verde National Park, CO
I met someone whom I loved; not in the obsessive childish infatuation way but in an honest-to-god-I-want-what-is-best-for-them way. When...
