Defeat may serve as well as victory
To shake the soul and let the glory out.
When the great oak is straining in the wind,
The boughs drink in new beauty, and the trunk
Sends down a deeper root on the windward side.
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief
Can know the mighty rapture.
Sorrows come
To stretch out spaces in the heart
for joy!

-- Unknown

To those who have never loved, loving may appear to be entirely purposeless, but they miss that it is the only purpose.

My son to me (after I was telling him that he was not doing a good job of telling me to go to bed tonight): "I'm a child who believes independancy is a key lesson for parents to learn."

Love that boy

Man was not meant to walk on concrete

"Yeah but I want to wait til I get back from Australia" (to think about buying a house)

"Wait is that house in Australia?"

"No it's in Provo..."

"Oh yeah...that's what I thought."

I know not where the path of life will take me, down what roads, across what paths, but I know how I will travel it, with an eye to the future, and an appreciation of the moments it affords me, and happiness whenever it is possible.

"For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world." -Michael Pollan

It is the things that you do that other people know you do that affect how they feel about you.

Anything worth eating should be worth savoring.

In response to this post, I was talking to my friend about the pictures I have on that blog, and about how I had climbed Y mount to get a certain picture. So I told him I just climbed to the Y, and he said I should have gone all the way to the top. So I was telling him various reasons why I didn't go all the way to the top, ending with this one:
[02:44:41] also they dont have a path past the Y

And he responds

[02:45:34] so what?!
[02:45:41] just lay out the branches from your tree into your own path!

Win :)