Learn to trust it.
It was liberating."
Challenges are often less complex than we think.
EMBRY RUCKER
It can feel like this.
And a long race certainly mirrors a life.
But a race is simple.
It may not feel so at the time.
Success is a combination of doing and accepting.
Life is a rich tapestry of what we do and don’t know.
It is a continual learning.
It is a letting go and it is a holding on.
It is a recognition of all that is absolutely necessary and a discarding of all that is extraneous.
It can take us some time to find out what these things are."
When you’re okay with not having control, amazing things can happen.
“The mountains taught me a lesson this morning.
A lesson that I’ve learned before, and will learn again.
And again and again.
This morning I wanted to train on my skis.
To skin up a route I have come to know so well.
I know how long it will take, I know where to push, where to ease up.
But today the mountains had another idea.
So, I was stopped in my tracks.
I had to take a new route.
A way I hadn’t skinned before.
The way was gentler in places, it took longer to gain height.
It gave me a different view and a new perspective.
And on that long skin up towards the sky I realized what I was being reminded of.
The world is as it is, and I am as I am.
It will snow when it snows.
The wind will blow when it blows.
The sun will shine when it shines.
They are as they are.
But that is the magic of life.”
Photo Credit: Embry Rucker; Amazon.com
