A new chapter starts.

For those of you who know me, you know what my last year was like. For those that don't, I'll just say it was not a good year. This year, with the birth of my second child, it was time to stop the tailspin. I started analyzing my life, with the help of my wife, friends, and a paid professional, I have started to piece together the problems I have been having and what their root causes are. Today, while out kayaking with a friend, I came to another realization. I feel, at this point in my life, more disconnected from nature than ever before.

I have always been an outdoorsy person, always spent the majority of my time outside. With the onset of fatherhood, and a full time career, I found myself outside less and less. As I trace back, I realize this is where the problems started, the time that I started to feel less and less stable. Over the course of the past four years, culminating in the hell of last year, I lost myself. This is my new start, a time to rediscover my connection with nature, and hopefully through that, myself.