Simple Living

• April 2009
• Hi Steph

Steph, I love the blog. The site is really designed well, but most importantly the content is great. I am a climber/sky diver and I also love dogs. Mine is a mix that I picked up from the Oakland Animal shelter when he was a pup. His name is Skarphedin, after an icelandic folk hero. […]

• March 2009
• Hi Steph

Dear Steph, My name is Carly Bradshaw; I’m a climber and a student at the University of Oregon, traveling and working on my undergrad thesis about climbing. Specifically, I am interested in the explaining the dirt climbing community at large using the microcosm of Hueco Tanks Texas as an example. I plan on spending some […]

• March 2009
• Simple Living

[audio:https://stephdavis.co/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/15-learning-to-fly.mp3] For the last month or two, I’ve been pretty motivated for training. In fact, I was liking it so much, I wasn’t really thinking about much else. I tend to get kind of focused on whatever I’m doing, and sometimes need to be yanked out of my groove 🙂

• March 2009
• Simple Living

Spring! Somehow these are the most moving words I’ve ever read. Every budding tree I see in spring makes me hear them in my mind. Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Brothers Karamazov: “Alyosha, my boy, so I want to live and go on living, even if it’s contrary to the rules of logic.