Sometimes I wonder if I will have the opportunity to go back to basics. To break out of this shell that I had never imagined myself retreating into. I seem to have been roaming nomadically for the past 10 years. Didn’t necessarily have ultimate freedom, but definitely had more than I have now. I am proud of what I have accomplished, and what I am accomplishing, but sometimes I just want to let it all go and live to only think of what I need to do to stay alive and enjoy my time on this earth.

One – among a few – of the reasons I have such a deep connection to the movie Into The Wild is the same longing I have as the main character to leave my organized and structured life for immersion in nature, natural, simple, pure, evangelical. For me there is nothing more spiritual than not knowing which direction civilization is, completely off the grid, and connecting to something that is impossible to connect to in an industrial civilization.

I believe for this purpose that my move to Utah has been more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. I have the mountains in every direction I go and really for anyone that has lived outside of the West, there is little better than watching a setting sun painting a hazy sky all shades of red and blue over the peak of a mountain. To have that in your back yard is very rewarding. It’s inspiring and moving. Something so simple that none of us should lose sight of.