Being silent is hard. Being silent for more than two hours in the company of a group of strangers while you trek 3.5 miles up a muddy trail through the pouring rain in a redwood forest is even harder. That’s exactly what the STRIVENT weekend adventure Meetup group did this weekend though. With intention, at 7am we set out from Stinson Beach to hike Mt. Tam’s Matt Davis 7-mile loop trail in a group silent meditation. Silence is powerful. When there’s no noise coming from the

There’s a subtle difference between pain and discomfort, and we discussed it on the STRIVENT Weekend Adventure Hike today while trekking along the Upper Meadow Trail 8 mile loop in the Rancho San Antonio Park. Pain is real. Pain weakens the integrity of a structure. For instance, putting pressure on bones or ripping tendons. This is real pain that can do long term damage that needs to cease immediately to prevent injury. Discomfort is psychological though. Discomfort is t

This month, the STRIVENT Book Club is reading Shoe Dog: A memoir by the creator of NIKE, Phil Knight. If you haven’t read this book and aren’t reading along already, I cannot recommend it enough. It’s fantastic and shaping up to be one of my favorite books of the year. The autobiography of Phil Knight is fascinating as it tells the tale of a simple Oregonian who realizes his cathexis about a market opportunity for Japanese shoes to be sold in America. This seemingly small c