PABCAS, the blog of Paul Martin Campbell

I’m heading to Moab for a couple days to celebrate thanksgiving with Katy who I met through her website 10 years ago back when social networking was nothing more than a GeoCities homepage and wonderful emails back and forth.

I got this in my email today:

It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still there. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards.

Fitting, right? And totally in line with my current thinking that fulfillment can be found enough in inspiring those around you, in driving others to be the best that they can be and emphasising, always that “it is even more important to enjoy it”

So get out there and blog and code and mess around with your facebook friends.