In a few days we’ll be in the Boundary Waters and all this will be distant, more distant than memory, more distant than the city, as distant as a rocky glaciated shoreline is from a microchip.
I think of those shorelines often. From the rocks at the waterline up into the thick forest that rarely shows [...]
This is some video I took with our digital camera while we were staying on Lake Insula in the Boundary Waters last spring. We’d been there for a few days and I think I for one was getting a little loopy.
And no, that’s not how I usually talk.
I read a very cool story on Sawbill Canoe Outfitters’ newsletter/blog this morning. All the more reason I would love to spend some time living up in that neck of the woods, on the edge of the Boundary Waters. I can’t imagine you experience things like this without spending some serious time in the place.
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Every trip into the canoe country leaves me with lasting memories of the skies. Venturing into the watery lands on the Minnesota-Ontario border has left me with countless vivid images of clouds stretching across broad expanses. Brilliant or hazy blues, bold or stained whites, aquariums of every shape of cloud or vacant voids that leave [...]
There won’t be a formal trip report as I often spew out after time spent out-of-doors… Rather, in the coming weeks, expect the occasional random thoughts and memories of our blissful nine days in the Boundary Waters.
Zen. A word often used and rarely known. I do not know it any more than most anybody else, but I use it less than many I know. Zen? Ah, another image sought after like a loud car or a giant suburban home. Sought after by others. I won’t claim to know Zen. I won’t [...]
A chapbook I've published containing my writing alongside the work of some other talented folks.
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