26/08/2024
Inspire definition • /in’spī(e)r/
fill (someone) with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative
We all experience inspiration day to day, week to week, or year to year. In our work, our play, our education, our family, our friends, our community, our craft, and so on. Most of the 2nd chapter of my life has been motivated by my passions… for experience, mountains, connection, music, adventure, surf, movement, fitness, travel, and culture. The antagonist to the active portion of these being inability due to injury, fatigue, and age.
My August began alongside Lynn Purser a climber from Alabama and our mutual roots to the southern Appalachian mountains. We climbed, scrambled, and trekked our way through the hills above Chamonix together for a week. Lynn was acclimating and training for his upcoming climb on the Horn. I was just enjoying the expressions and humor from other parties as Lynn passed climbers a fraction of his age with ease. At the same time, I was inspired. Motivated to keep pursuing my passions when I’m twice my age with Lynn’s zeal and drive.
An object (or body) in motion stays in motion.
