{"id":2161,"date":"2013-09-12T08:35:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T12:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/everydayspirituality\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2013-09-04T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T13:41:13","slug":"de-lazing-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/everydayspirituality\/2013\/09\/de-lazing-myself.html","title":{"rendered":"De-lazing myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us have heard about how lazy Americans have become. As a news reporter, I\u2019m finding a trend in the opposite direction. Now, it could be because I live in a poorer region, and we have no choice but get back to work or lose your health, your future.<\/p>\n

Membership in the local gym steadily increases. And, we have the Catskill Mountain Club blazing trails for hiking.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Shavertown Trail opened. I covered the opening ceremony and told myself to hike at least part of the trail. My destination was one mile, to Snake Pond.<\/p>\n

The weather was humid and chokingly hot. Thankfully, the trail started in the woods, so shade covered the first quarter mile. But it was steep. I turned onto a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) road and kept walking up<\/a> following the little round red signs nailed to trees every so often.<\/p>\n

I had to sit on a rotten stump to rest. After getting back up and walking some more, I saw a clearing and hoped with all my might the pond would be there. Wrong.<\/p>\n

The clearing allowed for the sunshine to weight down my head and after a while I returned to the shade to rest again. Up the trail came a hiker, Anne. She was one of the volunteers who blazed the trail. She told me, \u201cYou can do it. I\u2019ve done it 100 times, and it\u2019s always worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

I got back up and fell in behind Anne. Her pace was much slower and wiser than mine.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, over the clearing and around the bend was Snake Pond. It was worth it.<\/p>\n

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Snake Pond on Shavertown Trail in upstate New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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