In all the time we've been here, I couldn't recall having seen a vanity plate...
‘Why’d you stop?’
Tag: Henry David Thoreau
Tonic
Day upon day arrives with promise -- but also with an obligation to not squander the gift of another sunrise...
The pocket dump
What a person carries every day says a lot about their life, I think...
Of course you can’t. But if you could…
It seems to me that we spend a lot of time talking ourselves out of what we want to do...
‘Doubly difficult’
I've spent more time outdoors in the last year than in the previous three decades combined...
Our seventh First
When Deb and I set out on the First of May we intended to be on this journey for a year. What we might do after that is something we wouldn't discuss for...
‘The tonic of wildness’
"We need the tonic of wildness -- to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk..."
Yellow stone
If you've seen picture-postcard images of Yellowstone National Park, you know how it got its name -- or you think you know...
Day 329: Jammin’
This is Day 329 of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve. Deb and I are okie-dokie. And we’re gettin’ more snow. By the time it’s all over, this round could bring the most we’ve seen...
Flashback: ‘Any truth is better than make-believe’ (1854)
Some years ago I began referring to Henry David Thoreau's Walden: Life In The Woods, published in 1854, as "my old testament." That's still so -- I return to it often, in devotional fashion, and its pages continue to yield wisdom.