Jess Wedel is a writer, mountaineer, artist, and young adult ovarian cancer survivor from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Mountains appear in many forms. It’s not just gigantic rocks. It’s getting cancer at 27 and enduring major surgeries followed by 18 weeks of chemotherapy. I’ve learned some climbs are a lot easier than others. Once I made it to the other side, my life changed. I started climbing actual mountains with my mom because time is precious and there’s so much I hadn’t experienced outside of Oklahoma. I bet you’re wanting to ask, “How do you even train for mountains in the plains?”
Read MoreLast weekend I took down my show at Clarity Coffee. They shared this post on their blog a few months ago and I thought I shared it. The thing about this coffee shop is no matter who you are, they welcome you with open arms.
Read More“They weren't afraid of the cancer,” she said.
Each had the ability to find the resources they needed, she said.
“It's just another way of surviving."
Read MoreI know now how to hold close the feeling of being alive and that with or without cancer, my time is hauntingly small
Read MoreI turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking.
It’s the heart that asks the question, not my furious mind.
Read MoreAnd I was alive in the blizzard
of the blossoming pear,
Myself I stood in the storm of
the bird-cherry tree.
It was all leaflike and
Read MorePerhaps all of us just by breathing are keeping someone else afloat. Perhaps there is nothing anyone has to do except be. And in our being we will always find each other.
Read MoreKathmandu is the capital and largest city of Nepal with a population of around 1 million. Kathmandu is also the largest metropolis in the Himalayan hill region. Many climbers stop here before making their way to Mount Everest.
Read MoreI owe so much to those I don't love.
Read MoreWe killed a bird on the drive from Clayton, NM to Santa Fe. It was the quietest death.
Read MoreIt began long before it began when I was living in Wyoming and it was very cold and I saw a poster for a watercolor class.
Read MoreIN THE MIDST OF EVERYTHING
