AK aug 13 - final day ziplining and kayaking

2013.08.27
For the final day, we decided to do a little ziplining in the morning, then Riana went on one of her vertical hikes and I took on a spot of touristy kayaking with a bunch of people from the cruise ships.


We're basically the descendants of nervous monkeys.
Bill Duane, meditation teacher for Google
from a Wired article on the popularity of meditation and mindfulness in Silicon Valley.
As the crickets' soft autumn hum
is to us
so are we to the trees
as are they
to the rocks and the hills.
Gary Snyder

My hand is able to touch things only because my hand is itself a touchable thing.
David Abram, "The Spell of the Sensuous"

"It was as though after the demise of the ancestral, pagan gods, Western civilization's burnt offerings had become ever more constant, more extravagant, more acrid--as though we were petitioning some unknown and slumbering power, trying to stir some vast dragon, striving to invoke some unknown or long-forgotten power that, awakening, might call us back into relation with something other than ourselves and our own designs."