Just finished reading Into The Wild. I thought it was a great read. It would have been a great read just for the writing style and good story told, but it was so much more than that. I thought I saw some of me in the person the story was about. I thought maybe I had 2% of him in me. I know that is not very much, but I could somehow just understand the itch in his life that he just had to try and find a scratch for and the idealism he had to live for. He wasn't perfect, but there was so much about him that I respect so much.
I wonder about my "in the wild" experience just after college in the West End of Mount Vernon. I wonder how wild I really let it be. I wonder how much I sold out in the midst of it. I wonder how much I've let the idealism from those months fade from my life. I wonder how much of that idealism was good to let go of and how much of it should never have been let go of. I wonder about how risking everything might be the only way of finding everything.
Good book, pick it up and read it if you get the chance. I need to find Travis Bickle some time and have a discussion with him about it.
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absolutely dude. your family is always welcome to Franklinton. but we are often looking for a reason to bring the kids up to Mt. Vernon/Kenyon anyways...so maybe we can come up that way.
or maybe you can come down to Lower Lights and get lunch or something.
do it.
Its about time you posted something. I'm ready to come back to Westside.
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