An administrative note from your hiking friend:
I really love all the comments and support from so many people! Wow. I didn’t expect that this would go beyond myself, Memory, and a few of my immensely bored friends. Anyway, for many reasons, and I am sorry, I can’t respond to them -but I get them- and it really is a fun lift when I get a few minutes and have the connectivity to find them and read them.
Anyway.
Very short hike today – it’s an in-town resupply day.
Kept seeing these delicate and beautiful little clumps of green moss as I walked along. Really just an amazing thing to see up close.
I smelled it, and it has the most beautiful, earthy, sweet garden smell. Between this, the Mountain Bluets, the purple and white wildflowers coming up everywhere– All this beauty! All this intricacy of design, and complexity of function and symbiosis! Surely it can’t all be accidental. Surely it carries great and profound meaning! It’s enough to make one believe that there really must be a . . . forest.
Penultimate 
I like North Carolina…….way better the Massachusetts! Enjoy it while you’re there! I think the Appalachian Trail goes over Roan Mountain. It has grassy fields on top. I camped there with my cousin from NC and his friend when I was in my teens. We slept in tents. It is a great place to sleep! A fighter jet came out of nowhere up over the mountain flying low and loud! I think you’re in God’s country now!
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