Back to center. Shoal Creek Trail, Austin, TX.
Posts tagged inspiration.
Carnegie Hall is one of my favorite places in New York City—because there is nothing quite like putting on your good shoes and enveloping yourself in warm acoustics for the night.
Today I wandered Overlook Mountain with friends new and old—the perfect way to honor an early fall day.
Fort Greene, looking beautiful as ever this evening.
“I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.”
Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods
Here, I’m 3/4 of the way through The Grouse Grind, also known as Nature’s Stairmaster:
Length: 1.8 miles
Elevation Gain: 2,800 feet
Slope: 56%
Summit: 3,700 feet
Total Stairs: 2,830
I loved every minute of it.
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses // by Irwin Shaw
“When I think of New York City, I think of all the girls, the Jewish girls, the Italian girls, the Irish, Polack, Chinese, German, Negro, Spanish, Russian girls, all on parade in the city. I don’t know whether it’s something special with me or whether every man in the city walks around with the same feeling inside him, but I feel as though I’m at a picnic in this city. I like to sit near the women in the theaters, the famous beauties who’ve taken six hours to get ready and look it. And the young girls at the football games, with the red cheeks, and when the warm weather comes, the girls in their summer dresses …” He finished his drink. “That’s the story. You asked for it, remember. I can’t help but look at them. I can’t help but want them.”
“You want them,” Frances repeated without expression. “You said that.”
“Right,” Michael said, being cruel now and not caring, because she had made him expose himself. “You brought this subject up for discussion, we will discuss it fully.”
Frances finished her drink and swallowed two or three times extra. “You say you love me?”
“I love you, but I also want them. Okay.”
