Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.

Perhaps it’s time, I muse, to close those chapters and remember the enduring lesson of my entrapment: that relationships, not accomplishments, are what’s important in life.

I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour.