Pic 1: no words needed. Pic 2: by Mike Ellis; Dewa (photo far left) heading out into17-minutes of pure suffering in the Pain Cave alongside Her Durango XC Teammates..D eventually finished 11th out of 69 racers to help secure our Durango Middle School Girl’s XC Season to, uh, wait, lemme check, oh […]
Pic by ilg: Dewa (11) at 12, 213′ Saturday offering Her Nectar (Sweat) To The Altar (Divine Throne)… pictured is Dewa gunning it on Her own volition for ilg’s go-to flip point a few hundred feet higher on one of Her daddy’s few remaining secret go-to’s as the crush of a new population seems intent […]
Red (Mother)Earth, Blue (Father) Sky… ilg can be found here if not in the high alpine terrain… love EVERYTHING ABOUT the high desert… and to ilg? it gets more and more sacred as ilg grows older and shares my special sacred spaces with Dewa who REALLY vibes in Auspicious Ways among this pinon-studded, arid Heavenly […]
Dewachen Ilg (11) this morning during a two-sport duathlon workout involving 5k of vert…. here, Dewa is halfway up a ski-poling workout up the frontside of Purgatory whereupon, m(om)ents after your feeble teacher got this pic? ilg spotted a Bear Being not 100-meters fr(om) us.. “Baby Girl?” “Yeah,” (insert gasping for breath) “Dad…?” […]
“i have c(om)e to dis-cover and re-cover time again, how sacredly sweating within the terrain of Mother Earth and beneath Father Sky unconditionally forces us to feel unguarded, vulnerable, unprotected. It’s just this very fact – derived fr(om) Direct Experience – that c(om)peting and/or challenging ourselves in the wildness makes us stronger.” – steve ilg, […]
pic: Coach Hannah of Durango Nordic Team took this pic of Dewa and your feeble teacher at Gudy’s Rest above my chi-ldhood h(om)e drainage; Junction Creek during Team Training on Saturday. my chi-ldhood h(om)e was about 1.25 inches left of Dewa’s left wrist in this photo. Dewa crushed the 8-mile out-and-back to Gudy’s in […]
mere M(om)ents after earning Her 4th consecutive Honor Roll and Good Conduct Award, Dewa shifted gears… and posted up over 7+ miles over a full on asphalt road while taking the time to help Her lower classmates during a 90-minute Fun Run Fundraiser to which ilg reached out to ALL of you on Social Media […]
My Hopi Family taught feeble ilg, “If you’re lucky enough to be a runner? Well then? You are lucky enough!” Your feeble teacher of no-thing was deeeeeeply lucky (Blessed) to run steep and get Pranically high today in a short window of time available between Single Daddying and CareGiving to ilg’s M(om)… made the most […]