Last weekend, right about the time the rapture was supposed to be happening, I was ascending.
Climbing the sweeping stone staircase, it seemed as if I was ascending to some sort of hostel heaven.
The terrain was rarely easy: "Sometimes," writes Strayed, "it seemed that the Pacific Crest Trail was one long mountain I was ascending".
When I looked up at the climb ahead, I imagined he was ascending into the beyond — a sweet hereafter where nobody nagged you to walk.
My mother-in-law recently bought me a Keurig, and for a second, I mistook her for an angel and thought I might have been ascending into heaven.
"But then," Mr. Pilot added brightly, "I looked up and noticed we were ascending into the flight path of another plane, so I dipped down to avoid it.
All the different versions of me are ascending upward, and I can't wait to see who makes it to the top, how I converge.
I spot my crush Mike, he's ascending the bus stairs with his white-blond hair, like a wintry Viking child-god.
I think they probably are pointing to the fact that he's dying because, you know, he's ascending.
And conservatives can remain irate, even when they are ascending.
