Put another way, what is the meaning of life? I’m reading Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn – a beautiful book of reflections on meditation, presented in bite-sized 1-2 page chunks. The chunk I read today is titled “A What-Is-My-Way? Meditation” and it resonated with this walking wandering soul enough that I unpacked it in my journal,… Read More »god of my adventure, what is my path?
I’m leaving in a few days for an epic long walk – the West Highland Way in Scotland. Five days, 96 miles of pilgrimage walking, from Glasgow to Fort William. That promises to be a very special adventure. But this post is about a very ordinary adventure. So I picked up a new camera yesterday. Of all things, a compact… Read More »062025 – the ordinary is never ordinary.
“There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” This is a well-worn quote from Wendell Berry, and I am contemplating it after a week at Niagara Falls for our SDI annual conference. The first thing I did upon arrival was to run down to see the Falls. They are amazing; 75000 gallons of… Read More »A Visit to Niagara Falls (and a poem)
“It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here.“ I finished this drawing today, getting reacquainted with some of the visual language of the maps I was drawing (not interested in “accurate” maps these days – the walking/gps stuff has been pretty thoroughly co-opted by… Read More »New Drawing, Encroachment (and an encouragement from Edward Abbey)
Well that was a shit election. I didn’t need to watch the needle – last evening’s downcast faces told me all I needed to know. The boom of a lone firework that went off at 11:30pm nearby announced what I knew was coming. The rest of that fitful restless night I tried, and failed, to sleep through the gnawing dread… Read More »On Apocalypses
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