Flip-Flop
Week 14: (July 1 – July 7, 2023) Blame it on the rain.
“The rain to the wind said,/You push and I'll pelt./They so smote the garden bed/That the flowers actually knelt,/And lay lodged--though not dead./I know how the flowers felt.” ― Robert...
Week 13: (June 24 – June 30) Searching for Hallelujah While Slip Sliding Away
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our...
Week 12: (June 17 – June 23) Trail Magic: Kindness Abound.
“Every seed of Love planted within a heart may lie dormant for a long time but when the right conditions surround it, it cannot fail to germinate and grow and...
Week 10 (June 4 to June 9) Learning to See with Heart
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine...
Week 9 (May 27 to June 3) Random Events or Coincidences
“When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the skeptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus',
Week 8 (May 20 to May 26) Rain, Sickness and Young People: a return to Paradise
“Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and .” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy. May 20th we started at the “Hellish” Fingerboard Shelter (NY) and hiked to West Mountain...
Week 7 (May 13 to May 19) Trekking Through Dante’s Divine Comedy and Ending up in H***ish Campsite.
“What was this forest, salvage, rough and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So better is it, death is little more; but of the good to treat,...
May I Introduce Myself
My Real Name (kind of) My name is Mack McGhee (trail name coming in March/April 2024) and I have been preparing for an Appalachian Trail thru hike for decades. This...
Week 6 (May 6 to May 12) Different Perspectives
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s...
Marion, VA & The Grayson Highlands
Anddddd we're back. Can you believe it? I bet some of you gave up on my blog. But, as I told you, I will finish my AT story for you!...