[pct-l] Trail Therapy

[Naps.On.Trail]

Jeffrey,

Thank you. Few are aware of the movement of the psyche's energy and fewer
still are able to name it (most rush to chase the unfamiliar and
uncomfortable away with alcohol or drugs or too much entertainment or food
or sex). Fewer still have the ability to write about it. You write with the
insight of Rilke, Tolstoy, Jung, and Nietzsche.

Each of us steps up to the trail with a variety of psychological skills and
various levels of psychological sophistication and experience. Had I hiked
the trail three years ago I would have had a similar experience and would
have left. Over the last few years I have experimented extensively with
solitude and learned to hold loneliness (which are not at all the same),
developed my alone muscles, as it were, and now find joy in exercising them.
But I know their limits.

I intend to look for the wild-eyed hiker, the haunted face--perhaps I can
hike with them until the darkness lightens, and I hope someone will do the
same for me.

Naps-On-Trail