<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I know the originator of this term very well (I was best man at his wedding).<br><br>I can assure you, it is said with a wink and a nudge. it's another way of saying "No Sniveling"...<br><br><br><br>It's just a way of saying embrace all the trail throws at you. The beauty. The rawness. The difficulty. The share joy of being<br>out there.<br><br>Embrace it all.<br><br>If you take it too seriously..well, then you are taking way too many things seriously. :)<br><br>To quote another person from another trail... "It's just walking". ;-)<br><br><br><br><br><div> </div>----------------------------<br>Paul "Mags" Magnanti<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.pmags.com">http://www.pmags.com</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank"
href="http://www.twitter.com/pmagsco">http://www.twitter.com/pmagsco</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/pmags">http://www.facebook.com/pmags</a></span><br>-------------------------------<br>The true harvest of my life is intangible.... a little stardust <br>caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched<br>--Thoreau<div><br></div>
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