The alarm on my cell phone — far from any hope of reception — beeped at me from where it lay by my head. I extricated an arm from the confines of my mummy bag and swatted it quiet. A minute or more passed without further movement on my part, motionlessly fighting the idea of [...]
Though it’s not really this blog’s style to just post content found around the Web (though it’s good fun and something I would maybe like to do with another blog someday), I can’t resist posting this. It’s the entire “Alone in the Wilderness” documentary, frequently seen on PBS, chronicling Richard Proenneke’s life in the Alaskan [...]
From Patagonia’s infant blog The Cleanest Line comes a parable of leading a group of 15-year-olds into the Grand Tetons. The kids do not know silence, do not respect the grandeur. At least, when they enter the woods.
I stay outside of their circle, the old guy who doles out advice, corrections, and bad jokes. Then, [...]
All my moments of stillness have coincided with stillness in the world.
For example, a wooded hillside one winter afternoon. I’d been wandering around the park for an hour or so and I veered off the marked trail and onto this hillside, where I sat in the snow at the base of a tree and looked [...]
I stood on the very end of the dock and looked up at the night sky above. It was thick with the northern stars, the sky so black that I could make out the distinct glow of light around each of the countless specks. The lake before me was utterly calm. The little island a [...]
I got an axe. It’s an axe I’ve wanted for a long time and Rosie got it for me for my birthday. It’s a nice axe, handmade in Sweden. Longer than a hatchet, shorter than the average axe. It’s made for camping and canoeing. It feels good in the hand, and it’s good to look [...]
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