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A Mile In

"I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit...What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods? I suspect myself, and cannot help a shudder when I find myself so implicated even in what are called good works--for this may sometimes happen." -Henry David Thoreau, Walking Don't get the wrong impression--I don't sit around reading Thoreau. This was just fitting and I happened to know enough of the gist to Google it. Wouldn't want y'all to think I'd gone academic English on y'all: that's my brother's job. I don't even know if I just used that colon correctly in that last sentence. We're in a period of major potential transition, which, I think, can be just as hard as the transition itself. The uncertainty of the lead-up doesn't have the "luxury" of the forced busyness of the real bustle of change. It's all research and p...