Thinking(5/26/11)

Cant really keep my brain flowing on my project so im taking a break.

"All around us are influences, our surroundings constantly mold us, shaping who we are, but only you can choose the end picture. Even if you are raised out of weeds, if you can stretch yourself tall enough, you'll see the sun and realize what you wanna become."-Josh Ward

today i ran into a fansite on facebook through a friends page, this fanpage was a memorial for Josh Ward
I personaly never knew Josh but after digging a little i found and remembered some connecting lines that are interesting.
He was 11 months to the day older than me
He ran track and cross country
His sophmore and because of a car accident life PR was 17.22 (ame as my SF year)
I raced with him once at lake wilderness
He enjoyed hiking
His friends took a memorial up to the top of Mt.Si last year within days of Jason and i's hike up. I noticed the memorial first and was intrigued
Josh was LDS
His family lives near me (the older Wards)
All in all Josh sounded like a guy that i probably would have gotten along really well with and reading what his friends and family said about him and a few quotes from him,im inspired by him, someone i never met has lit a spark of inspiration inside of me and i look forward to the day when i can meet this young man on the other side.

A bit from his eulogy
-"He learned to love running and ran pretty much every day. He liked to push himself and see how far he could go. Once he ran out on the Snoqualmie Valley trail to see how far he could go, but I don’t think he thought about the fact he had to run back too until he had gone too far. He ran 20 miles that day and was really sore for a while."


"Make every decision with thought
You don't know what tangent path
It'll throw you on
The butterfly (will) affect your world"

But ya, all in all going through all that and learning about someone i never knew yet had so mush in common with was an interesting experience

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School is almost over, life has pretty much come full circle in the past year
i see in my future over the next few months lots of trails and lots of vauluntary discomfort XD
Fires,runs,hikes,campouts,friends,adventures.
should be one fun summer =)
now just to finish up this year....

The summer bucket list(5/20/11)

1.Go to the drive in
2.Eat an entire XXX burger
3.Hike at least once a week
4.Run 6 Days a week
5.Get at least 500 miles in
6.Go on a run longer than 13 miles
7.Go on a camping trip with the group
8.Go fishing
9.Drive out to fort warden
10.Picnic somewhere random
11.Fly kites
12.Float the river
13.Go to flaming geyser
14.Beach camping/backpacking
15.Leave the state at least once
16.Bonfires galore
17.End of school year party (this really shoulda been at the top)
18.Burn "the pile" =)
19.Go on a crazy shirtless night run =)
20.Watch the meteor shower
21.Swim in the ocean
22.Go to the pool hall in the valley
23.The insane day =)
more to be added