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Theres more than buzzfeed articles on the world wide web. I"m going to go ahead an post some awesome reads I come across and would love fo ya'll to share as well.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/01/theres-more-to-life-than-being-happy/266805/
http://yourfriendshouse.com/uncategorised/hunter-s-thompson-on-finding-your-purpose/
for real books books i just read The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler which was awesome and i also like to read this blog: http://semi-rad.com/
aanew1for real books books i just read The Rise of Superman by Steven Kotler which was awesome and i also like to read this blog: http://semi-rad.com/
I'm a big fan of Semi-Rad too!
nattytokesLiterature gets me just as excited as skiing! Lately I've been exploring books on meaning as well! A great one is called the "Power of Now." Does anyone here write? :)
I'm a writer at my day job. If you're interested here is some shameless self promotion: http://thetahoeweekly.com/author/jenn-sheridan/
I also do some freelance work on the side. I don't do a lot of creative/ non-work-related writing lately just because when I'm not on a deadline I'd rather be skiing. ;)
nosnowsnakesjust because when I'm not on a deadline I'd rather be skiing. ;)[/QUOTEFeel ya on that! If you ever write anything on spec, I run an online zine/media collective about chicks who shred at http://www.lostgirlstribe.com. I am currently accepting submissions for photo/video/writing!
for books, i highly recommend The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, It by Stephen King, and anything by Sherman Alexie.
for blogs, i follow http://dirtbagdiaries.com/, even though it's more podcasts.
I am so tired of everyone waiting. We spend our lives waiting for Friday, for next weekend, for summer to start, for the holidays to come, for winter to end, to make more friends, for college to start, for college to end, for “real life” to start, to move away…to move away from the friends and family you know to an unknown place, to get our dream job, to meet the love of our life, for him to get down on one knee, for that special day to finally come, for children to be born, for them to start school, for them to get out of school, for them to get married and have children of their own. We spend our lives waiting.
After all is said and done, you’ll be waiting again…waiting to die. You’ll be lying on your death bed waiting…still. Waiting for the time when you die and when your loved ones can finally move on with their lives. What an awful life to live…a life of waiting. Stop waiting and start living because you are living in the real world…today…every day.
The real world doesn’t come on your first day of school, on your first day of college, on your first day at your first real job, it doesn’t start when you get married, when your first child is born, when you retire, and it certainly doesn’t start when you die. Your real life started the day you were born. But every day you spend waiting for something miraculous to happen, you miss out on the beautiful life happening around you.
Today I have no job, no boyfriend, I just moved back home, and I have no clue what career I want to pursue. But today I also have parents who love me, friends who make me laugh, I live in America, one of the most privileged countries in the world. I have my health, I have a college education, and most of all — I’m alive. I’m alive and I’m not waiting because today is real life. Today is my real life because tomorrow never comes and I refuse to spend my life waiting because that is no way to live.
Today I went for a walk with my dad, to the movies with my friend, and started reading a book. I didn’t meet my future husband, I didn’t land my dream job (or any job for that matter), and I didn’t purchase a ticket to travel the world. But today was extraordinary because I spent it with two people I love and because I am healthy and I am alive. I am happy today, not because I have everything I want, I am happy today because I have everything I need and I trust that where I am today is exactly where I’m meant to be.
Don’t get me wrong, I have my fears for the future and am excited to see what the next part of my life brings, but at the same time — that point may never come. I could go to bed tonight and never wake up, I could get into a fatal car accident tomorrow morning, or worse — someone I love more than anyone in the world could fall ill or drop dead in the blink of an eye. When they die, how will I remember spending my life with them? Waiting? Waiting for the next best thing to come along, not realizing that while I was waiting for the next part of my life, I was also waiting for them to pass me by. In 15 years I could be married, I could have a house full of children, and I could have a thriving career. For all I know at that same time, my parents could be gone, my friends could be scattered across the globe, and my life in my hometown could be long gone.
So if you have friends who are fine with this reality and still want to wish these years by, then with all due respect, tell them to walk out of your life today, forever. Because clearly the privileged life they live today isn’t enough and the life they live in the future will never be enough because they fail to appreciate what they already have. You should have no interest in surrounding yourself with these kinds of people. Walk away not because they accept this reality, walk away because they clearly don’t value the life you share today since they spend their lives wishing the time they were granted away.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my short 21 years of life, it’s not to wish your life away because sometimes you get just what you wish for. Time passes quickly enough without you wishing to change the place you stand and where you are.
http://thoughtcatalog.com/lauren-pharaoh/2014/08/the-problem-with-waiting-your-life-away/
Relevant.
https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/807313/I-am-just-a-Skier
Definitely worth the read!
connecticuntFor my outdoorsy ladies, wild by Cheryl Strayed was one of my absolute favorite books and I know they came out with a movie adaptation too. Read the book first, her journey is captured much better through text.I don't follow blogs that much so I'm definitely going to give all your links a look
If you enjoyed Wild, check out Almost Somewhere by Suzanne Roberts. It's three women thru-hiking the John Muir trail.
I just finished Night Driving by Dick Dorworth. It's more of an extended essay than a novel but it's pretty good if your into long road trips, skiing shenanigans and beer drinking.
connecticuntFor my outdoorsy ladies, wild by Cheryl Strayed was one of my absolute favorite books and I know they came out with a movie adaptation too. Read the book first, her journey is captured much better through text.I don't follow blogs that much so I'm definitely going to give all your links a look
Loved that book.
Also, read Warren Millers Wine, Women and Skis. I found it at a thrift store for $3 and it makes me laugh every time. Really fun short read, I bring it everywhere I go as sort of a good luck charm.
I usually don't like fantasy very much, but I got sucked into The Wheel of Time series pretty hard (like 6 out of 14 books in.) Really great characters, and women with actual roles (unlike most fantasy books.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-skiing.html?_r=1
A short(ish) and sweet read about skiing. My favourite part was:
"In the flow, you have no time for reflective or analytical thinking. Your body needs to work in concert with the mind absolutely, simultaneously and unconditionally — you can kiss your Cartesian split goodbye. One wrong decision is enough to make you fall, perhaps even suffer a serious injury or, at the very least, shatter a mental and sensory immersion so pleasurable as to be orgasmic, so intense that it amounts to nothing less than a sense of total presence in the world."
Here's a real gem from the enlightened bros over at Unofficial Networks.
http://unofficialnetworks.com/2015/08/top-5-things-every-ski-bum-wants-to-hear-from-his-girlfriend