Jump. The unknown is waiting.

For the first time in 22 years I've found myself completely free to do absolutely anything my heart desires. Any change in the wind, any twinge of my heart strings, and I can follow without repercussion. It's an oddly daunting notion, but I can't help but feel indescribably invigorated. Can you remember the last time you had that feeling? I highly recommend trying, on a personal level, it's rather revolutionary. I see now why people travel here and simply never return. There is a majestic beauty that is in one moment awe inspiringly silent, but blink just one second, and you'll find your every sense engaged like never before. I think I want to marry it. I want to bottle it up and walk hand in hand with it into old age, so that when the pressures of this life become seemingly to much to bear, when darkness seems to shadow all, I can remind myself of this natural beauty that makes it hard not to believe that there is something out there greater than we could ever really understand. By opening my mind and my heart to this possibility, i have in return found a brand new world waiting for my next foot forward. Each day I wear less and less clothing, the goosebumps ignited across my skin by the brisk sea air is the most real thing I've felt in a very long time. It's funny how the things that once weighed heavy on our shoulders, the elements of life that we so aggressively prepared ourselves against, can in one instant become ingrained into who we are for forever more. No longer a burden, rather a friendship that will guide you into the greatest adventures of your life. Alaska, I am almost there. I'm knocking at your doorstep. As I gaze across the ocean that divides us I can taste you on my tongue, I am breathing your air, I can feel you whisper between my fingers. This heavenly smell in my lungs, I am home. Yours,

Ian Ferguson