Becoming A Hussy In 2026

To restore you body, you have to take to our most ancient traditions, walking, and walking very long distances, in very beautiful places.

The first step is to pack your backpack and leave it by the door, the second is to get the grand kids to walk with you.

Just tell them that you love them a lot, but you need their help now, because you are setting off to section hike the Appalachian Trail.

Get a few of the grand kids, the moment you actually need their help, you will know who really loves you back.

I suggest you start section hiking all the beautiful places first, Shenandoah National Park in Virginni comes to mind.

You do need to find the AT trail and actually walk it, you don’t have to sleep at a trail shelter.

Shenandoah maybe beautiful, but you will find, the most beautiful sight you will see out there are the hikers.

They will look young, but these are ancient creatures, connected to the starry dynamo of the night.

Moon hussies, ocean hussies, lake hussies, many walk in boots that crossed continents.

And more than you can image, once felt as old as you feel right now.

The trail will run the time backwards for you, you may need to cross the Pacific Crest and Continental Divide.

Meet the mountain hussies, the spring hussies, the star hussies, the snow hussies, the great adventurer hussies.

At first the trail may feel strange, but before you know it, you will discover hat you are from the trail.

That you only visit the cities, and the elderly will look at you, see your laughter, and daisy chain crown, and call you a real hussy.

The rocks will be slippery, the hills will be endless, the brand kids will cry, the blisters, the cold, the rain, the mice at the shelter.

But after a while, a lighter pack, a change of boots, somewhere by a hot spring maybe, maybe up in the maintains.

You will speak the following holy words: “I am young again” - and mean it.

And you will be, young, and beautiful.

Ps.

Eventually, you may wish to catch your breath, and that is what the gym is for.

All you need to know, is that you keep walking, and slowly add wrist and ankle weights as needed.

The truth is that humans do not return from adventure, we transcend, you maybe walking a treadmill.

But you are still on the trail, beneath the stars.

You are just visiting, you are holy, you have places to be now.