Lately I’ve been reading about too many hikers and climbers needing rescues, getting lost, or worse. I’m also seeing a lot of new accounts on social media, whether they intend to or not, promoting more of an extreme relationship with nature that could easily lead others down a wrong path. To each their own—people can…
Author: Matt Larson
With my first book, 4000s by 40, released this fall, I am fulfilling a lifelong dream of writing, and am excited to continue the journey of storytelling with future projects—so much so that the day after I published 4000s by 40, I began my next work.
Much of my inspiration comes from nature. My early love for the ocean, found on the South Shore of Massachusetts, has transitioned into a deep passion for the mountains here in New Hampshire, and I wanted to share that with my first book.
If you’d like to connect or have any inquiries, you can reach out to me at [email protected]. I’m also on Instagram and Facebook at wanderingmatt8. Happy reading!
Messages
You’re not the first one to really see it, you know.
Nor the first to feel a meaning —
a presence beyond yourself —
when it slips through the bevy
drifting before its face.
You’re not the first to feel the transfer
that comes between the wisps,
and hits you up top
before coursing the spiderwebs,
out your fingertips.
No, you don’t get that claim.
Or being the first to know what to do
or the first to climb a mountain.
And certainly not the first to put yourself
in a position to succeed.
A Post Gone Wrong
Years ago, I posted something on this site about how crazy ski parents are. Having recently discovered what it was like to be the parent of a kid on a ski team myself, I dropped what was supposed to be a humorous rebuke of our collective insanity. I titled it something like, “Crazier than Hockey…
Bridging the Pond with The Getaway People
It was 1998 and I was a college senior at BC. Guster was performing, and opening for them was a relatively new band called The Getaway People. Both bands put on a great show, and when it was all over, some of our roommates who were working the show asked the bands if they’d like…