Brandon

“This is the native home of hope,” Wallace Stegner wrote of the American West.”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

“The skiing cosmos is difficult to explain to anyone not immersed in it. The act of skiing differs from traditional sports in that unlike basketball, biking or football, it requires specific orographic and meteorological phenomena. Because skiers depend on planetary forces much larger than themselves—and, like surfers, must work in harmony with them—a kind of otherworldly euphoria overtakes them when they do it well.”
― Porter Fox, DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow

“Skis on snow, mountains in white, bracing wintry air, forced deep breathing, gliding into grace — these are nature’s ways of healing a skier’s heart. Healing it one run at a time”
― Jules Older, Skiing the Edge: Humor, Humiliation, Holiness, and Heart

“You are loved for Christ’s sake, not because your heart and life are perfect.”
― Timothy J. Keller, God's Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs