So much in life, in the success of a human life, depends on knowing who you are and what you want. That crucial clarity is so difficult to achieve. I think often now, at the age of sixty-seven, of three pivotal weeks of my life when I was sixteen. I spent them alone in a tower in Canada’s subarctic looking for forest fires. Ultimately, the loneliness became profound. I left that tower not knowing who I was. That led to decades of unnecessary twists and turns. Or maybe they were necessary, for instance to the creation of Heron Dance, to make it what it is. I don’t yet know.
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More reflections on life on the edge inspired by an interview I did of renowned climber Charlie Porter, and perspectives by Hermann Hesse and Walter Bonatti here.
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