Leif Olson

American Discovery Trail candidate here [enter “deep breath” emoji here]! I guess I’m a WEBO, though at times I’ll also be an EABO and then back to a WEBO (with a touch and dab of NOBO and SOBO now and again). Cool, love the vernacular! Appropriate, the tongue twisting, as I think I may have lost my mind. No worries, that’s what AI is for these days! So here we are…I was born in a place and a time some too many years ago. Some crazy stuff happened (some good, a little great, a fair bit terrible…the emoji that does that “eeehh” thing, plus the head tilted, laughing/crying one). And [one more deep breath] here we are…again! I’m a good many things (writer, artist, educator, ill-planner…and some other stuff I can sometimes remember). I write as a praxis of living and live as a praxis of writing…I’m a dreamer, the kind that equates magic and science and then goes to grad school (more than once!) to prove it. I’m grounded, I’m aware…I’ve been there. As for the rest, I’ll have time to share. I’m gonna be out here awhile (re-enter the aforementioned emojis). And before I get tired and forget…I appreciate ya’ll for being here! Cool, let’s do it!!

Posts

Delaware, DC and the C&O

Delaware, DC and the C&O

Days 4-15 on the American Discovery Trail By the end of day three I was anxious to get out and get walking again. It had been raining all day and I had the fortune of a dry place to stay.

Apr 9, 2024 : Leif Olson
The ADT: Days 1-3 in Delaware

The ADT: Days 1-3 in Delaware

What a privilege and blessing to have, somewhat by accident, walked into Cape Henlopen in the middle of the night under a nearly full moon. The beauty, the solitude, the undiluted or convoluted auditorium of nature quite appropriate for the journey I’m about to take...

Mar 28, 2024 : Leif Olson
The ADT: Reflections Aboard an Eastbound Train

The ADT: Reflections Aboard an Eastbound Train

For days now I’ve been pacing about my sister’s living room, passing time…just passing.  The rise—the fall; the tick—the tok…time passing.  For the most part my affairs are in order, that is, the mess packed away in a box (both symbolic and literally!).  In a lot of ways that’s how this feels, as I now sit in an upper deck seat staring out the window of an eastbound train...

Mar 22, 2024 : Leif Olson
The ADT: On the Eve

The ADT: On the Eve

The truth is I’m a lot of things, insincere not amongst them.  For what it’s worth, with me you get me as I am.  I know the course I’m about to walk, the challenges I am certain to face...

Mar 19, 2024 : Leif Olson
American Discovery Trail: Imminent Departure!

American Discovery Trail: Imminent Departure!

No worries, I feel like the hardest part is over (he says in that gasping for breath, laughing sort of way!). After all, I made an absolute decision that will impact every second of every day for the foreseeable future. I made that decision, as I often do, in an instant.

Mar 15, 2024 : Leif Olson