The road to patience and equanimity is arduous. How does one detach from others, from the outcomes of the external world, and still remain compassionate and connected,with front row seats to a movie about their continual downfall? How does one sit back in fortitude and remain a mere observer to the self-sabotage and destruction? It is within the unperturbed landscape of forests, rivers, and mountains where one finds solace from the abhorrent affairs of a civilization's steady decline into chaos, and the ease in which contemplation comes over deeply rooted values- uninterrupted by the noisy squalor of history repeating itself.













