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07 Aug, 2008

Blog Day 1 - Define Progress

Posted by: delitaagain In: Lessons Learned

This odyssey doesn’t have a clear beginning and won’t ever end (until I leave this world) so we’ll be racking up progress in blog days here – days since I started blogging the odyssey.
Progress is defined as anything I did or even thought about that would tend to result in odyssey-related movement. Motivation. Forward movement [...]

07 Aug, 2008

The Mountain Metaphor

Posted by: delitaagain In: Lessons Learned

I learned to backpack the summer I turned 49, but had learned to handle mountains the year before.
Overweight and out-of-shape, I could see I’d never make it up the mountain with my new friends so I sent them on ahead.
As the mountain got steeper I slowed my pace. Still running out of breath, I shortened [...]



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