So live for those moments that make one feel small. Live for those times amidst the hard work that catch one by surprise, when silence is the only music. I speak of the moments that change a person if one lets them. Though their memory fades, the effect does not. They are the moments that change a person from just a branch of something else to a mighty oak. They are the moments that make a life worth living. So even though, many years from now, I may stumble on this paper, read it through, and not recall the mountain nor have it stir my soul from the memory of what it felt like, it does not matter much. What does matter is I lived it, and I let it change me. - An except from A Moment Under the Stars from the Journals of Lygon Stevens who passed away at age 20 under an avalanche in the southern Colorado Rocky Mountains.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:06:23 +0000
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