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  • THIN AIR, OLD DREAMS, AND 10 BUDDIES

    Oct 2005: I was a fresh graduate with a bucket list that started with three bold words: Everest Base Camp. I didn’t know then that it would take twenty-one years of life and ten of the most incredible humans I now know to finally cross it off… cross it off with the very specific, nostalgic…

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  • A PERSPECTIVE SHIFT OVER NESCAFÉ

    I close my eyes and suddenly I’m time-traveling back to my backpacking days in New Zealand. I’m standing on the edge of a glacial lake — the air crisp, the oxygen traveling deep into my lungs, and the view, oh so mesmerizing. The water sparkles like crystals, a shimmering tapestry that looks like a polished…

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  • PEEL OFF THE LAYERS

    Once you peeled off the layers — and it took approximately three minutes per layer — each one of us was exactly who we were ~12 years ago. The same goofy eyebrow raises. The same worse-than-inappropriate jokes. The same desire to do nothing but hang. And the same comfort of being accepted exactly as we…

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  • FROM ICE CREAM TO EUREKA

    Right between the moment something falls apart and the moment you figure out your plan, there’s a gap — and it’s filled with the unknown. And it usually arrives with a side of nausea. When you don’t know your next destination, the milestones, or even the way forward, your tummy aches, hormones stage a mini…

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