I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in the past. I wanted to have back just one sunny afternoon together.

This mountain, the arched back of the earth risen before us, it made me feel humble, like a beggar, just lucky to be here at all, even briefly.

It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

Within the past five years, we've started really seeing a lot of interest in childhood activities being incorporated into exercise classes. It's the variety of the activities, and the novelty, and there's definitely an element of escapism about them: You can go into a studio for an hour and be a salsa dancer.

Within the past five years, we've started really seeing a lot of interest in childhood activities being incorporated into exercise classes.