My grand grandmother Emma used to say, “Life is short, but it’s also wide.”

Think about that phrase. 

There are limits – but there are also possibilities.

There might be obstacles – but there are workarounds. 

A wide life means – we always have a chance for a do-over

It’s that a cool paradigm shift?

My trail name “Blissful Hiker” With a name like that, you’d think I’d have no problem living great-grandma Emma’s “life is wide” mantra.

But you’d be wrong!

It would take 5-million steps on my first thru-hike to figure out what Emma was talking about.

I learned that “life is wide” when I did one of the wildest things of my life — I gave up something of great value to take a sabbatical and walk the length of New Zealand…