One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

~ Anthony Liccione

Anthony Liccione Abeyance Anticipation Assurance Auspices Belief Broken Promises Confidence Contemplation Curiosity Destiny Eager Expectations False Foresight Hope Intentions Lookout Pain Perspective Prediction Presumption Prospect Receiver Reckoning Roses Sanguine Shower Speeches Suspense Thorns Trust Waiting Words

The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.

~ Philip Connors

Philip Connors 102 Fire Life Lookout Mountains