A dusty road winds ahead, a muddy mire behind. Today, I find a steep path daunting. Tomorrow, I'll be haunted by its memories. Forever, I'll be reminded by its incline, and next time the climb won't seem as perilous. Lessons earned on the road are carried lifetimes in silence seated in reality, not querulous comments. Life is a trek. A perilous path of pitfalls. A demise to feckless hikers. I wander because feet carry me over, and eyes drink in the only truth I'll ever accept: truth of Earth and Nature. Honesty in its rawest, purest form, unaffordable to humankind, but never fully out of reach. Wander, and let life teach...