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Some people would call us the tri team power couple. #triteampowercouple #14ers #WeSawNina (at Grays Peak & Torreys Peak)

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"I've never been everywhere, but it's on my list." Mexico City, you are truly one of the most beautiful places I've been. Thanks for a wonderful weekend. #iflystandby (at Palacio de Bellas Artes, México, D.F.)

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Life update: Cat Woman getting me through the day. Decided to try to get to Mexico today, the Universe wasn't so sure at first and kept me in Houston for a tad too long, but then she lightened up a bit @sofipayro see you soon :)

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Throwback to yesterday when I wasn't in class. How things have changed.... #MondaySkiSquad

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Do you ever think about how these mountains have always been here, even when we weren't? Sometimes feeling small is the most liberating feeling in the world. (at Steamboat Ski Resort Colorado)

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Stuck with a ski bum heart. #igotitfrommymomma

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When nature knows how to take a good picture, but you don't. #naturedoesitbetter BOCO, you've stolen my heart. Or at least the sky has. #chasingthegoldenhour (at Red Rocks Trail Boulder)

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You know it's going to be a good day when you get to the top off a mountain before the sun. (at Steamboat Ski Resort Colorado)

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I really can't think of any other thing that got me here but just how lucky I am. I did not earn being alive today any more than anyone else. My heart hurts so much right now. I wish I had more words. I wish I could be better. I wish I could earn each day so I could at least begin to understand the universe, both its beauty and its pain. I feel like it is easy to feel you deserve something, but once I get to know other people I realize I still have so much more to learn. So I am trying. I am working on being open to really listening to others and hearing why they are the way they are. I'm learning to let go of expectations about what other people tell me is good and bad because I think it is all so intermingled, how can I possibly decide? I wish I didn't judge as much. I should love more. Maybe then I will earn tomorrow. I wish I smiled at people more and gave a lot more than I took. I wish I spent more time looking for the good, and less time seeing the bad. Maybe then I would feel like I earned another day. I wish I learned silence before I learned to talk. I'm sorry if I ever spoke over you. I wish I could say that I understood why things happen, but I don't because some things are just really f***** up. And I know if we all spilled our secrets, none of us could really say we earned even a day here in this beautiful place. ... maybe that's the secret though. Maybe if we all tried harder than anything just to earn tomorrow, our world would be so full of love, grief wouldn't hurt so much. I wish I had the perfect words to tell someone that I'm here. I wish we all knew how much someone cared. Our world is beautiful, but so incredibly cruel. We need all the love we can get while we are here, so I'm going to try to spread it a little more. Whether you read this it not, I really do love you. You brought something wonderful to the table that only you could bring, and if I never told you that, I'm sorry. I'm glad you're here.

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I know there is so much pain everywhere in the world. But I needed a way to describe how I feel because my words seem to keep getting mixed up and misunderstood. Imagine. Imagine if even all those that were different lived as neighbors, creating magic by embracing those difference. Imagine. Imagine if Religion was about believing but even more about loving. Imagine. Imagine if we saw every death as a detrimental loss, not some twisted and sick idea that some how a death can be victorious when they are an enemy. Imagine. Imagine if evolution could take us to a new level of humanity, one where kindness was our natural reaction and we helped so much more than we hurt. Imagine. Imagine if humans lived to better the world, to give until they gave out, if they sought endlessly to understand, not to criticize. Imagine. Imagine if we said, but we did oh so much more. If we got off our timelines and newsfeeds and came together and simply talked, if education was inclusive, to everyone, if we saw profits second to the people and to the planet. If understood that the earth is an ecosystem where we work together to keep things functioning, not a place that existed only for human consumption, if we learned from other incredible cultures rather than hiding in fear of losing our own. When we seek to understand we can learn so much more. Let us not confuse the evils of the world. It is not one religion, one country, or one race. It is misguidance, ignorance, and the hunger for power.

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I, I am not proud

I do not wear these colors with pride

I, I do not know peace

I am told it is not possible

I, I am told to shut up

“these men are giving their lives”

They, they tell me it’s right

“we need to protect freedom”

I, I question this notion

[freedom through war, through oppression?]

You, you wear your gun with pride 

But I, I wonder if you notice these lies

Believe what you’re told

“Hand on your heart”

“Hat off your head”

[Pledge under God?] 

How can you make these claims?

Millions die

Millions cry

But you, you wear your gun with pride

You, you wear your colors loud

You, you speak even louder

But I, I wish you would listen

LISTEN

Listen to the tears

Listen to us cry

[These things are not right]

While they, they walk around

Do they also not notice these sounds

Or do they, just like you

Believe what they’re fed

Watch their tiny screens

This is their tiny life

While I, I walk backwards

Among these marching robots

Are you proud to be an American?

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Adventure outside. Great things can happen.

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This place finds new ways to amaze me everyday. @annaburkholder thanks for riding with me :)

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What more could I ask for on a such a nice night. It's the days you don't want to go that are always the best. #daddysgirl #mountainbiking #steamboat

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How can you trust anybody that gets used to a view like this?