“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
– Sir Edmund Hillary
I strap on my old tennis shoes. The ones that used to be as white as Jesus Christ’s Sunday School robe, but now are dingy, torn, and stained – shoes that smell like earth that’s been left out of the refrigerator too long.
These shoes [...]
Maybe you’ve been pursuing a dream, a goal, a purpose, a job – something, something that you felt you needed to give your all for.
And you have given. And given and given and given some more, your dream taking and taking, without retribution. That perpetual dangling carrot, in sight but always out of reach.
Lords knows [...]