I Made It

7/16/2018

A new series now exists on this site called "Rambling." It IS about me rambling but not in the crazed, maniacal way you all know me to do. This is about hiking, adventure, trekking into the unknown wilds, escaping the routine of work and the whims of others. It all began on my random yet necessary journey to Black Mesa in the panhandle of Oklahoma. Why there? I don't quite know either other than it was a challenge, it was far away, and I knew I could get there. That sojourn changed me, for the better. Nature and solitude gave me something that I did not know I missed or needed. And so, from this point on, I will continue reporting, and seeking, new adventures. Check out the new addition and perhaps consider your own wild needs, places that call to you for no known reason yet you are drawn, compelled, to go.

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THE MAD BARRON

QUOTES I ADMIRE
"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." - from the Wilderness Act, 1964

"I owe my solitude to other people." - ALAN WATTS

“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”
― Walt Whitman

"In the ancient world, people placed heavy stones on the graves of the dead so their souls would not wander and inflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice of superstitious and primitive people. But I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist, and their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own."

- Dave Robicheaux (In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead)