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This is the outside podcast. Take a minute, maybe even take a deep breath, and think about your first encounter with a force of nature, something that redefined your mental map of physical power, of what's possible, of how strong something can be.

Maybe it's swimming in the ocean, underestimating the power of a wave and getting flattened.

Maybe you've seen an avalanche from far away and heard the sound of a mountain crashing into

another mountain.

Maybe it's just wrestling with an uncle or your older sibling,

thinking you can stand up for yourself and then finding out there is literally nothing you can do.

My first encounter with the force of nature was getting caught in a stampede.

Back some time in the late 80s, early 90s, my family was visiting some friends who owned a cattle ranch,

and me and my sisters were out in the field, except it's all kind of just dirt.

And we were walking around, looking at the cows, when one of the bulls just decided he didn't like the look of us.

I was four years old, maybe five, so I can't remember exactly what happened or why he didn't like us.

But a group of them came together and told us to git.

The memory is as much an emotion as it is a progression of events.

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