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Backpacking
Backpacking is Mother Nature’s laxative,
purging civilization’s discontentments and
jettisoning society’s cloying accouterments,
roughage for cleansing our psyche.
Backpacking simplifies existence,
relaxing Life’s pace,
opening eyes to mind and soul
and conferring intimacy to all that is observed.
A mountain climbed becomes a mountain earned
just as a burden conquered is a burden mastered.
Backpacking requires Time,
and taking Time elongates Life,
turns Life e l a s t i c and
s t r e t c h e s Life to meet the horizon--
or perhaps not meet it.
It matters not,
for that which is stretched
e x p a n d s
amplifies
proliferates
and understanding surges in to possess
the newfound space.
So backpack,
and grow as you go.
(copyright 2003 by Chuck Morlock)
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