Abstract

A personal narrative of the author's extended backpacking trip in the North Cascades just after her 65th birthday. Themes of regret, gratitude, and connection are addressed within the context of wilderness hiking. The author cites a personal walking meditation of thankfulness and calls on consciously acknowledging relationship with the intricate processes of the human and more than human world as antidote to despair.

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