tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10694316.post533513116135614305..comments2024-03-27T20:10:46.984-07:00Comments on The Rambling Taoist: PathsThe Rambling Taoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04730292897416827840noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10694316.post-76645740222742927122011-12-05T16:22:56.323-08:002011-12-05T16:22:56.323-08:00Yeah, you'd enjoy the story of when my husband...Yeah, you'd enjoy the story of when my husband descended by a shortcut on a scrubby hillside in Hong Kong. Once he reached the main trail, a guy on it asked him, "Did you see the cobras?"baroness radonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14593108634484542286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10694316.post-24459269438407264532011-12-05T13:56:43.204-08:002011-12-05T13:56:43.204-08:00...And you get better stories with the bushwhack....And you get better stories with the bushwhack.Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12704525078859327898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10694316.post-90870715308978375252011-12-05T09:24:35.140-08:002011-12-05T09:24:35.140-08:00Certainly we follow our own paths because we have ...Certainly we follow our own paths because we have our own feet. But sometimes, road signs and rest stops are welcome. We don't have to chop our way through jungles when just 30 feet to the right or left may be a perfectly good path on which we may find friends and advisors (or theives or charlatans, to be sure, let the walker beware). <br /><br />When hiking with my husband I often followed him on"shortcuts" which meant stumbling through bees, spiders and snakes, climbing straight up when we could have arrived, not much later, via an easy switchback. <br /><br />The view from the top, however, was always the same no matter how we got there.baroness radonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14593108634484542286noreply@blogger.com