Well, I didn’t get a lot of time to write this week, and then I forgot the little bit I did get written at home… So, no “Fiction Friday” today. But, I thought I might just throw out a couple paragraphs I wrote this fall about our cabin and land where I spent that surreal [...]
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.” ~ Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler On the subject of hermits, some people say that it is not talking to yourself that marks you as crazy, it’s [...]
We were enjoying some bruschetta tonight on the flower-filled deck at my in-laws. Suddenly, a fearless hummingbird appeared. At first, we thought it was a very large bumblebee, but soon we realized it had to be a crazy little hummingbird. Had to be. I took a bunch of photos as it visited every flower on [...]
What didn’t survive the cut in the Expectations post was a digression about how my generation has a jaded seen-it-all attitude that is very disturbing. We have largely been driven from the primitive, from the real laws of nature, of the wild, the principles of being human. I felt it working very strongly in me [...]
“The days that followed were full of wonderment. The spell that was upon us continued, and all we saw was colored by its mood.” – Sigurd Olson, The Explorers Most people, myself included, read a quote from Olson, Snyder, Leopold, Muir, or some other famous champion of the wild and are motivated to go forth [...]
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