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I started this blog in 2009 as I prepared to leave Vermont for a two and a half month trip to New Zealand and Tasmania. A convergence of endings twisted together then to form a single path towards a new beginning–a venturing out into the world wide awake and open.
I named this blog Running Barefoot for the freedom it signified:
[Freedom is] running barefoot: calloused feet, hair like ribbons flying, arms pumping and legs exposed. It is diving naked into deep water, coolness sliding across my skin, taking a deep gulp of air as I emerge up on the surface. It is breathing in pine trees and maple leaves as they fall down and turn crunchy in autumn, or fresh mud and melting snow in spring. It is the sound of geese returning after winter, the stillness of crystalized snow, the solitude of a cold, cloudless winter night. Freedom is loving the world with no expectations or apologies. It is dancing in the circle of seasons and embracing the security of constant change, which brings death and also rebirth.
This still holds true for me, but over the last 4+ years this blog has evolved as I myself have learned, grown, and walked farther down this path of intentional living. Writing has always been a lens of personal reflection for me, and what I see when I look back through my blogs are themes of wildness, conscious living, and a move towards family and rootedness to a place. These themes, and a confusion by some that my blog is actually about running, has led me to change the name of this blog.
I invite you now to An Intentional Wildness: farming, family and finding the wild in every day.
I hope you enjoy it, find some bits and pieces to take with you and inspire wildness in your soul. Thank you for reading, for sharing, and for letting wildness roam through your days.
Thank you Katie. I started loosely following your blog about a year ago when I was accepted into St. Lawrence University. I saw you on the featured students section of the environmental studies page of the university website, and eventually found my way to this blog. In fact, when think I of those months a year ago when the relief of knowing my collegiate future was set, I always remember reading this blog. “The Day I was Born” remains as my favorite post.
I myself am pursuing an environmental studies-English major. My FYP was “Literature of the Local,” basically a mesh of the two subjects. My FYS was supposed to be “Feast or Famine,” a study of the social, cultural, and economic aspects of food. However, I was forced to take a medical withdrawal from this current semester to undergo surgery. I passed that hurdle two weeks ago. I will be returning to campus in August however, and intend on applying to the Adirondack semester for my junior year (which, according to the St. Lawrence website, you participated in?).
Just tonight I created my own WordPress, and the first blog I chose to follow was this one. Best luck in living intentionally, from one New Englander to another (I live and grew up in Connecticut).
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