Your adventures and others you share are inspirational. I’m definitely able bodied but not of the hiking sort. Knees and weight issues. But I ride my trike, swim and play golf. I blame my resistance to wild adventures to apron strings of my mother.
However, she never knew I climbed the small mountain behind our home by myself. I wish I could find that child again.
That line “able to use her body to do the things she cared about” — I needed that today. I’m in the process of closing a 25 year old medical practice, I’m sad, stressed and exhausted, sitting too much and stiffening up…and today DH took (and shared) a most unfortunate photo of me, which plunked me right into all the “not good enough” body image nonsense that goes with being the opposite of willowy. Thanks for reminding me that my strong-like-ox frame is what let me revive my love of mogul skiing last season, at sixty, and will, goddess willing, keep me at it another twenty years.
Your adventures and others you share are inspirational. I’m definitely able bodied but not of the hiking sort. Knees and weight issues. But I ride my trike, swim and play golf. I blame my resistance to wild adventures to apron strings of my mother.
However, she never knew I climbed the small mountain behind our home by myself. I wish I could find that child again.
This makes me want to book that trip to the mountains 🩵🩵
I had exactly the same reaction, Grace.
That line “able to use her body to do the things she cared about” — I needed that today. I’m in the process of closing a 25 year old medical practice, I’m sad, stressed and exhausted, sitting too much and stiffening up…and today DH took (and shared) a most unfortunate photo of me, which plunked me right into all the “not good enough” body image nonsense that goes with being the opposite of willowy. Thanks for reminding me that my strong-like-ox frame is what let me revive my love of mogul skiing last season, at sixty, and will, goddess willing, keep me at it another twenty years.