Fare thee well
Written while out taking notes for the final '10k walkback' geology test
Sitting, taking notes while a geologist wanders around gathering rocks and metabolic data. Realizing that I'm sitting on coral reef. Here, this place, it's home. In my normal polyhomed way, but also.. I could be in a canyon in Arizona writing this. I think that's why the comments I get about how desolate it is here don't resonate. I see so much here - place, history, people, features, wildlife. Some of that is being here, some my history and some deep in who I am.
I leave here tomorrow. As always, I don't know when or if I'll be back. This place joins so many others that have challenged me, that have caused me to step up and pull through. Physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, professional. It has all become a part of who I am. I will move on from here not different, but more. Tools (powertools) added to my bag-o-tricks.
I pick big challenges. Not the biggest, perhaps, but far from small. Weeks and months of foreign territory, over and over again. Either I love it or I don't learn my lesson. Or, perhaps, I still have lessons to learn.
Sitting, taking notes while a geologist wanders around gathering rocks and metabolic data. Realizing that I'm sitting on coral reef. Here, this place, it's home. In my normal polyhomed way, but also.. I could be in a canyon in Arizona writing this. I think that's why the comments I get about how desolate it is here don't resonate. I see so much here - place, history, people, features, wildlife. Some of that is being here, some my history and some deep in who I am.
I leave here tomorrow. As always, I don't know when or if I'll be back. This place joins so many others that have challenged me, that have caused me to step up and pull through. Physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, professional. It has all become a part of who I am. I will move on from here not different, but more. Tools (powertools) added to my bag-o-tricks.
I pick big challenges. Not the biggest, perhaps, but far from small. Weeks and months of foreign territory, over and over again. Either I love it or I don't learn my lesson. Or, perhaps, I still have lessons to learn.