I thought I knew my little brother. Then he told me his bucket-list dream was to meditate in the King's Chamber inside the Great Pyramid of Egypt. His answer introduced me to a side of him I'd never seen.

Nearly 800 miles into hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, I discovered I wasn't just walking north. The trail had given me something I hadn't realized I'd been missing: spaciousness.

I don't remember deciding who I needed to become. I only remember living as though it were true