#Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

European Space Agency astronaut Samatha Cristoforetti captured a photo of a portion of Tibet's Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the Earth on Sept. 5, 2022. Since the station began hosting human astronauts in November 2000, crew members have produced hundreds of thousands of images of the land, oceans, and atmosphere of Earth, and even of the Moon through Crew Earth Observations.

Their photographs of Earth record how the planet changes over time due to human activity and natural events. This allows scientists to monitor disasters, direct response on the ground and study a number of phenomena, from the movement of glaciers to urban wildlife.

Image credit: NASA   [h/t Scott Horton]

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“It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.”

― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#NASA #Samantha Cristoforetti #Tibet's Tanggula Mountains #Scott Horton #european space agency #Cheryl Strayed #wild #wilderness #metaphor #Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

[books-in-media]

Emma Watson, (Twitter, January 03, 2015)

—Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed (2012)

#Emma Watson #wild #Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail #Cheryl Strayed #books #celebrities

[nusta]

#Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail #cheryl strayed #books #storytelling #Youtube

[redcarpet-streetstyle]

“What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I’d done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I’d done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was sorry, but if I could go back in time I wouldn't do anything differently than I had done? What if I’d actually wanted to fuck every one of those men? What if heroin taught me something? What if yes was the right answer instead of no? What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?”

#cheryl strayed #quote of the day #wild #forgiveness #2012 #From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail #Tiny Beautiful Things #self acceptance #reese witherspoon

[litandlifequotes]

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed 

#cheryl strayed #wild #memoir #book #book quote #quote #words #reading

[finkuldunkulboydetective]

A complicated relationship with isolation

With Solitude - Jane O'Wayne//2. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing//3. Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess, 2004)//4. Audrey Hepburn//5. Intersection - Modern Baseball//6. Alone Together XI, 2018 - Aristotle Roufanis//7. Love in the Time of Human Papillomavirus - AJJ//8. As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 - Susan Sontag//9. Jim Carrey//10. Automat - Edward Hopper//11. Alone Together I - Close up detail - Aristotle Roufanis//12. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed//13. Lua - Bright Eyes//14. Disposable Everything - AJJ//15. Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine, 2007)//16. The Shape - Dejan Stojanovic //17. Mehmet Murat Ildan //18. Alone Together XII (detail), 2018 - Aristotle Roufanis //19. Time Forgot - Conor Oberst //20. Point Nemo //21. Wallflower - The Brooks and the Bluff//22. Photo of Earth by Michael Collins, everyone alive at the time (1969) is in the picture, besides Collins

#web weaving #webweaving #literature #film #movies #poetry #songs #photography #loneliness #isolation

[sakuramoonlightblossom]

Hello my fellow 9-1-1 fans and Buddie shippers!

I need your help deciding which way to go with the 9-1-1 fic series I’m currently writing. It’s inspired somewhat by the book “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” by Cheryl Strayd (and the film the book is based on that stars Reese Witherspoon). The series begins a day after the Season 2 finale and will become a Season 3 AU, though the tsunami and the lawsuit will be a part of it (though in this AU, Buck goes to the union instead of that lawyer). I’ve been writing the first fic in this series since the beginning of January and I was confident in how the story was going to play out. Then last week I read the 9-1-1 fic “there are so many lines that I've crossed unforgiven (i'll tell you the truth, but never goodbye)” by generalboredomnstuff (which I highly recommend, especially if you’re a Taylor Swift fan) and I got the idea for a songwriter/singer Buck fic. I did an outline of my idea and set it aside so I could focus on my current series (just to be clear, the songwriter/singer AU will have a completely different storyline than the fic mentioned above, it doesn’t even have any Taylor Swift music). But the more I’ve been thinking about it over the past few days, the more I been realizing that the way this series is going, it would fit with both the songwriter/singer Buck AU and the PCT hiker Buck AU and I’m not sure which one to write now. So I’ve decided to leave it up to all of you to decide which fic series would you like to read.

Also, in both series, Buddie will be endgame, though it will take a while to get (this is Season 3 and they have A LOT of issues to work through.)

#911 abc #buddie #evan buck buckley #eddie diaz #I’ll likely end up writing both #I just need to know which one to focus on first

[hpowellsmith]

Books of January

I've really enjoyed reading more this month! I always read a lot over the holidays and then fall out of the habit but ended up doing more this time around.

Wild: from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed (reread)

I liked this when I first read it, and liked it even more this time. The sense of the outdoors and the personal journeys within feel incredibly real to me. It inspired me to get out and about more: I always feel better when I take some time outdoors. I didn't really get on with her other books, but this one remains a favourite.

Dancing on Eggshells: Kitchen, Ballroom, & The Messy Inbetween - John Whaite

Every so often I read a celebrity memoir and usually it falls a little flat - often too obviously ghostwritten/over-edited or glib or twee. This one is less over-polished which is to its benefit, includes a bunch of lovely recipes, and explores growing up gay in England during Section 28 (at the same time I was growing up). Whaite comes across as very sincere in this, and since publication has said he's quitting TV which is probably a good thing. It was interesting reading the Strictly parts having read Craig Revel Horwood's memoir last year - Revel Horwood is very blithe about how lovely it all is whereas Whaite gives a more complicated perspective.

Maw - Jude Ellison S. Doyle

This horror graphic novel is gripping in places but it didn't pull me in as much as I'd hoped having read Doyle's discussions about the writing process and inspirations. It was over a little fast, characters appeared and were killed off a little too speedily for it to have much impact, and the ending felt a little abrupt. I liked the characters and the general idea but would have liked more breathing room to get to know them. I've got The Neighbors on pre-order and hope to get into that one more.

The Easternmost Sky - Juliet Blaxland

I could write an essay about what was frustrating about this book - the lack of class-consciousness from someone who casually mentions going to visit cousins for Christmas at the local manor, the (wilfully?) ignorant comments about rewilding, the unexamined pro-hunting commentary - but parts of it are quite good and evocative. Having grown up in rural England where neither I nor my peers were involved with the hunting-and-shooting manor-house culture, it's irritating to read a book which cheerfully conflates "country life" with being someone who loves running to hounds and thinks hunting is great, but some of the descriptions were lovely. Still, I'd recommend other nature writers like Robert MacFarlane or Helen Macdonald (who engages with falconry, but in a much more thoughtful way) over this one.

The Lives of Christopher Chant - Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

This was a beloved book from my teenage years and I shared it with my child after there was a lot of enjoyment of Howl's Moving Castle and Charmed Life last year. This one was a harder sell, it turned out: it's slower-paced than I remember, and bleaker, and there's very DWJ-esque penultimate chapter where a lot of stuff suddenly happens and is revealed and resolved very fast. I do love Christopher and his friends, though, and as with many of DWJ's books, it does betrayal and sudden self-awareness heartbreakingly well.

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

I. Loved. This. I loved it! I'd read a couple of Moreno-Garcia's books before and enjoyed them reasonably but this was the first one where it really grabbed me and wouldn't let go. A post-colonial Mexican gothic horror in which the heroine probes into an English family's business when her cousin, who's married into this family, sends a disturbed message begging for help... it's so good. I don't want to say anything more about it but I enjoyed it immensely and it solidified Moreno-Garcia as a favourite author.

Toto the Ninja Cat and the Legend of the Wildcat - Dermot O'Leary

This was really cute. My child and I ended up losing track of some of the plot, which became slightly complex, but it was generally adorable. There's not a ton else to say other than it's a nice story with a few jokes for adults that are good sensible-chuckle material.

Untamed Shore - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

This was so good. It's a noir thriller without the supernatural elements I'd encountered in the author's other work, but it gripped me excellently. I really enjoyed the unfolding dangerousness of all the characters, including the protagonist, and I was genuinely uncertain about what would happen towards the end - it had me really tense! I enjoyed it greatly.

#books

[mindfulwrath]

Books of 2023

"You Look Like a Thing and I Love You" by Janelle Shane - AI is even weirder when you know how it works. Interesting read. Recommended.

"The Spare Man" by Mary Robinette Kowal - Cozy mystery, IN SPACE! Good mystery, fun characters, ACAB. Recommended.

"Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Vol. 4" by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu - Oh they FUCKIN. Recommended.

"Meddling Kids" by Edgar Cantero - Scooby-Doo meets Lovecraft. Scarier than I expected. Recommended.

"Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days" vols. 1-5 by Shiro Amano - Break my heart all over again why don't you. Surprisingly humorous. Recommended.

"Every Heart a Doorway" by Seanan McGuire - Boarding school/group therapy for young adults who have just returned from portal fantasies. "Piranesi" vibes. Recommended.

"Down Among the Sticks and Bones" by Seanan McGuire - Prequel "A" to 'Every Heart a Doorway.' Vampires, mad scientists, and the greatest horror: suburbia. Recommended.

"Beneath the Sugar Sky" by Seanan McGuire - Sequel "A" to 'Every Heart a Doorway.' A group of portal-fantasy survivors quest to resurrect a friend. Recommended.

"In an Absent Dream" by Seanan McGuire - Prequel "B" to 'Every Heart a Doorway.' Fae bargains and the consequences of brinksmanship. Recommended.

"Peter Pan" by James Barry - Charmingly written, alarming subtext. At times appallingly racist. An interesting read.

"Come Tumbling Down" by Seanan McGuire - Sequel "B" to 'Every Heart a Doorway.' A portal-fantasy survivor seeks aid to unswap her body. Recommended.

"The Roman Empire" by Don Nardo - Nice overview of the time period, accessible, with good references. At times gratingly Christianity-positive.

"Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village" by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper - What it says on the tin. Amusing.

"Across the Green Grass Fields" by Seanan McGuire - Prequel "C" to 'Every Heart a Doorway.' Horse girl goes to horse world. Frankly, missable.

"Everyday Life in Ancient Rome" by Lionel Casson - Fascinating, and has my favorite quality in a historian: petty snark. Recommended.

"Where the Drowned Girls Go" by Seanan McGuire - Sequel "C" to 'Every Heart a Doorway.' Portal Fantasy survivor escapes institutionalization. Recommended.

"T. Rex and the Crater of Doom" by Walter Alvarez - How we figured out what killed the dinosaurs. Recommended.

"Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" by Ben Barres - Life, science, and activism from a trans neuroscientist. Recommended if you like neuro jargon.

"The Eternal Darkness" by Robert Ballard - A brief history of deep-sea exploration told by someone who's been there. Recommended.

"Lost in the Moment and Found" by Seanan McGuire - Prequel "D" to 'Every Heart a Doorway.' Abused child escapes to a cosmic Lost & Found. Recommended.

"The Writing in the Stone" by Irving Finkel - A mysterious stone drives a Babylonian exorcist to a killing spree. Cool concept, unpleasant execution.

"The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett - Docu-drama about the building of a cathedral. Like if Game of Thrones loved its characters. Recommended.

"The Secret History of Moscow" by Ekaterina Sedia - People are turning into birds and folktale creatures live underground. Not my cup of tea, but Gaiman fans will like it.

"Wild" by Cheryl Strayed - A woman hikes the Pacific Crest Trail alone to grieve her mother's death. An interesting read.

"House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski - An imaginary film ruins a guy's life. Disturbing. Recommended.

"The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson - The true story of the 1893 World's Fair and the serial killer who hunted there. Fair bits way more interesting than killer bits. Recommended.

"Piranesi" by Susanna Clark (reread) - The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite. Recommended.

#books of 2023 #my goal was to read more nonfiction this year than last year #definitely accomplished

[spring-sage]

“It was all unknown to me then, as I sat on that white bench on the day I finished my hike. Everything except the fact that I didn't have to know. That is was enough to trust that what I'd done was true. To understand its meaning without yet being able to say precisely what it was, like all those lines from The Dream of a Common Language that had run through my nights and days. To believe that I didn't need to reach with my bare hands anymore. To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life - like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.

How wild it was, to let it be.”

― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#watched this lastnignt #I liked it

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. Photo: Becca Miller (RMM)(Sep 2022)

[Scott Horton]

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“The staying and doing it, in spite of everything. In spite of the bears and the rattlesnakes and the scat of the mountain lions I never saw; the blisters and scabs and scrapes and lacerations. The exhaustion and the deprivation; the cold and the heat; the monotony and the pain; the thirst and the hunger; the glory and the ghosts that haunted me as I hiked eleven hundred miles from the Mojave Desert to the state of Washington by myself. And finally, once I’d actually gone and done it, walked all those miles for all those days, there was the realization that what I’d thought was the beginning had not really been the beginning at all. That in truth my hike on the Pacific Crest Trail hadn’t begun when I made the snap decision to do it. It had begun before I even imagined it, precisely four years, seven months, and three days before, when I’d stood in a little room at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and learned that my mother was going to die.”

― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#quotes #Cheryl Strayed #Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail #Petrified Forest National Park #Becca Miller #Scott Horton #stories

[gardenofwordss]

I didn't feel sad or happy. I didn't feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right.

― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

#book #reading #book lover #quotes #book quotes #inspiring quotes #inspirational quotes #motivational quotes #quoteoftheday #lit #literature #bookworm #life quotes #garden of words #beautiful words #books & libraries #books and reading

[nusta]

#Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail #cheryl strayed #books #storytelling #Youtube

[thiswindyplace]

Alone in Chaves by João Cabral

“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”

― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

[chattingwiththelightkeeper]

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

[stickylittleleaves]

BOOKS & FILMS I FIRST READ/WATCHED IN 2022 THAT I RATED 4 OR MORE STARS

BOOKS

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou

Ways of Seeing (1972) by John Berger

Blacksad (2006) by Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido

Saints and Strangers (1985) by Angela Carter

Discourse on Colonialism (1950) by Aimé Césaire

Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) by Ted Chiang

Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) by Angela Y. Davis

Demons (1873) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner

33 ���: J Dilla’s Donuts (2014) by Jordan Ferguson

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) by Mark Fisher

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (1938) by C.L.R. James

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (2020) by Walter Johnson

Horror: A Very Short Introduction (2021) by Darryl Jones

Red Pill (2020) by Hari Kunzru

White Tears (2017) by Hari Kunzru

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) by Herman Melville

Selected Poems (1912 - 1950) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Socialism: A Very Short Introduction (2005) by Michael Newman

The Sympathizer (2017) by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1606)

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1606)

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare (1605 - 1606)

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012) by Cheryl Strayed

The Little Stranger (2009) by Sarah Waters

The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic (2017) by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (ed.)

FILMS

It Happened One Night (1934) dir. Frank Capra

Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica

The Northman (2022) dir. Robert Eggers

Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein

Smoke Signals (1998) dir. Chris Eyre

Let’s Scare Jessica to Death (1971) dir. John Hancock

Grizzly Man (2005) dir. Werner Herzog

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) dir. Tobe Hooper

Whisper of the Heart (1995) dir. Yoshifumi Kondō

First Blood (1982) dir. Ted Kotcheff

Dr. Strangelove (1964) dir. Stanley Kubrick

Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick

M (1931) dir. Fritz Lang

Do The Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee

The Green Knight (2021) dir. David Lowery

My Neighbor Totoro (1988) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

Pig (2021) dir. Michael Sarnoski

The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

Prey (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles

The Animatrix (2003) dir. various

#we made an effort to watch a lot of 'film school' type movies this year so that's why some of the films are so highbrow lol #books #movies