On the coming of the Equinox in chaotic times. Everything of that day was autumn. The sun beamed in friendly fashion down upon our rock stronghold. It was still quite warm and formidable, but something in its character revealed the beginnings of its terminal wane. The wind, blowing steadily throughout the day’s adventure, made fewerContinue reading “The Winds of Monte Rosa”
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I am doing NaNoWriMo – AND I NEED YOUR HELP!
I need your peer pressure in order to make this happen. Your peer pressure – harsh and brutal if necessary – is my only hope. It’s November again, obviously, and as I kept getting nagging spam emails from the NaNoWriMo people, I slowly succumbed to the allure of Why not? You should know, this is maybeContinue reading “I am doing NaNoWriMo – AND I NEED YOUR HELP!”
FLASHBACK: The Old Forest
Originally published on October 8, 2012, The Old Forest was one of the first two or three posts ever to appear on this humble mash of a site. In fact, it was convenient for me to post at the time because it had already existed for some time. It’s a brief but worthwhile local legendContinue reading “FLASHBACK: The Old Forest”
The Wizard’s Midsummer’s Night Monadnock Adventure: Part 2 (A Photo Journey)
Yesterday, when we left off, our heroes (myself included) were scaling Monadnock’s final stretch, that place mostly above the artificial treeline where you think you’re there already but there’s at least a half hour to go and you’re very, very tired and kind of staggering along. That’s how the experience is for me, anyway. TheContinue reading “The Wizard’s Midsummer’s Night Monadnock Adventure: Part 2 (A Photo Journey)”
The Wizard’s Midsummer’s Night Monadnock Adventure: Part 1 (A Photo Journey)
As is only fitting for 2013’s Day of Longest Light, and in keeping with my general tendencies toward wildness and not thinking things through, on the evening of June 21, I set out to climb my beloved mountain. This is a chronicle of that fateful and life-changing trek into the heights of divine communion andContinue reading “The Wizard’s Midsummer’s Night Monadnock Adventure: Part 1 (A Photo Journey)”
Meditation on a Mountain
It might strike some as curious on a site that takes its name from a wizard who takes his title from the particular mountain, Monadnock, that we have never really discussed the mountain itself outside of the moniker. This is an unintentional omission on my part. I often find that I fail to differentiate betweenContinue reading “Meditation on a Mountain”
Christopher J. DiLoreto 