Loved your story, Alex! Your nature writing and photography have been wonderful. Ending with the snow storm was very dramatic, but, but, but I couldn’t help but feel it impeded on what you might have written if your trip north was uneventful. Perhaps an epilogue is in order. Though you left us with you back at your family’s home for the holidays, I couldn’t help but think this too was temporary. What was it like returning to the South? What did you learn about yourself and were you able to bring resolution to the very reason you undertook this adventure in the first place? Alex, what you wrote was fabulous, but isn’t there more to this story? Again, great writing. Very, very impressive!
Many thanks for this, and for reading through the whole of the adventure, it has been a pleasure to share it with you.
And yes--a very BIG yes! There is much left to discuss, including the points you mention. I intend to find time to do another post or two here, but I am also working on a book proposal for the whole, including those extra parts I had to leave out due to lack of time.
I think these extra things, embedded within a structure of the week by week adventure itself, are certainly selling points. I have thousands of words of notes and drafts which didn't make it to my letter (yet), including wider views, such as my thoughts on how we could all do with considerable, in depth, experience of time in nature (something I touched on in the Ancestral, Wild Empowerment post yesterday--Looking Back and Going Forward).
Essentially, watch this space for more news on a possible book. And, as I say, I do have two more posts I intend to share in A Fall in Time, but that won't be until next year at some point.
Thanks again for reading, I really appreciate it and your comments!
This has been magnificent Alex, from start to finish an enviable adventure... thank you so much for sharing your journals and notes, your fabulous photos that brought me closer to the magical place you chose to spend time. I’m gutted it’s over!
Thank you! It's not entirely over, in that I'm working on a book proposal for this adventure (with a LOT of extras). When I started the AFiT project, I had grand ideas of extra, weekly essays about those extras, but time being what it is, that didn't happen. However, I still have many thousands of words of drafts and notes which can be expanded and shared at some point. I'd like it to be in a book, if possible, I'll just have to show there's a market for such a thing.
Thank you for writing about your journey in the snow. It vividly brought back memories of being on a bleak, snow filled road in Scotland, driving over the Devil's Elbow into Perthshire. The snow was drifting so much I could not see the edges of the road. My friend had to open the passenger door and lean out, so she could tell me if we were too close to the edge of the road, and the long, long drop to the valley below.
Eek! That sounds equally scary! Here, where we live now, nearly all the roads have poles to help with finding the road edges in deep snow, and for similar reason--a drop off these means a fast journey to the valley bottom!
Many thanks for this comment, it is always good to hear the stories of others, something I really enjoy with Substack.
Loved your story, Alex! Your nature writing and photography have been wonderful. Ending with the snow storm was very dramatic, but, but, but I couldn’t help but feel it impeded on what you might have written if your trip north was uneventful. Perhaps an epilogue is in order. Though you left us with you back at your family’s home for the holidays, I couldn’t help but think this too was temporary. What was it like returning to the South? What did you learn about yourself and were you able to bring resolution to the very reason you undertook this adventure in the first place? Alex, what you wrote was fabulous, but isn’t there more to this story? Again, great writing. Very, very impressive!
Many thanks for this, and for reading through the whole of the adventure, it has been a pleasure to share it with you.
And yes--a very BIG yes! There is much left to discuss, including the points you mention. I intend to find time to do another post or two here, but I am also working on a book proposal for the whole, including those extra parts I had to leave out due to lack of time.
I think these extra things, embedded within a structure of the week by week adventure itself, are certainly selling points. I have thousands of words of notes and drafts which didn't make it to my letter (yet), including wider views, such as my thoughts on how we could all do with considerable, in depth, experience of time in nature (something I touched on in the Ancestral, Wild Empowerment post yesterday--Looking Back and Going Forward).
Essentially, watch this space for more news on a possible book. And, as I say, I do have two more posts I intend to share in A Fall in Time, but that won't be until next year at some point.
Thanks again for reading, I really appreciate it and your comments!
This has been magnificent Alex, from start to finish an enviable adventure... thank you so much for sharing your journals and notes, your fabulous photos that brought me closer to the magical place you chose to spend time. I’m gutted it’s over!
Thank you! It's not entirely over, in that I'm working on a book proposal for this adventure (with a LOT of extras). When I started the AFiT project, I had grand ideas of extra, weekly essays about those extras, but time being what it is, that didn't happen. However, I still have many thousands of words of drafts and notes which can be expanded and shared at some point. I'd like it to be in a book, if possible, I'll just have to show there's a market for such a thing.
It has been fascinating to follow along with this truly epic experience. Thank you!
Many thanks Erik, so glad you enjoyed it! Now "all" I need to do is write a book proposal and then craft a book based on this adventure...
It's a great story. I think it would do very well as a book!
Thanks! I'm doing my research into agents, which is a bit scary, but fingers crossed it'll be worth it!
Thank you for writing about your journey in the snow. It vividly brought back memories of being on a bleak, snow filled road in Scotland, driving over the Devil's Elbow into Perthshire. The snow was drifting so much I could not see the edges of the road. My friend had to open the passenger door and lean out, so she could tell me if we were too close to the edge of the road, and the long, long drop to the valley below.
Eek! That sounds equally scary! Here, where we live now, nearly all the roads have poles to help with finding the road edges in deep snow, and for similar reason--a drop off these means a fast journey to the valley bottom!
Many thanks for this comment, it is always good to hear the stories of others, something I really enjoy with Substack.
Yes, I also love to hear everyone's stories. That road now has poles, and they have gates that they close if the weather gets too bad.