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On photography and things like that
Where thoughts and pictures become words.
A Reluctant Enthusiast
Be as I am—a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more [...]
Weathering The Storm
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. -Frederick Douglass It has been a spell since my last post. Luckily [...]
Are You Planning To Fail?
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. -Rainer Maria Rilke You may be [...]
Road Not Taken
No man is a failure who is enjoying life. -William Feather For the past few weeks, I have intensified my search for winter camping opportunities. Living in a state that has limited public camping land most of my [...]
Monthly Insights: Happy New Year – December 2020
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse Is it really the end of another year? Already? A lot has been said about this year. The bottom line [...]
Monthly Insights: Transitions – November 2020
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzsche Guess I'm running a little late in getting the November monthly posted. Not intentional, but I knew a week [...]
Monthly Insights: Faster Pace – October 2020
And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.– Oscar Wilde Is it really the end of October 2020? Since I have been outdoors most of the last 7 days I suppose I shouldn't even be questioning that. It [...]
Monthly Insights: Explorations – September 2020
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was [...]
Autumn 2020 & Quotes From Yoda
Train yourself to let go… of everything you fear to lose. -Yoda It's easy to get distracted in our day to day lives. Somedays flow like a natural spring from the hillside and other days waves bounce you [...]
Monthly Insights: Travels – August 2020
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot The last two weeks of August seen [...]
Monthly Insights: Expanding Horizons – July 2020
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Sometimes it's hard to believe how quickly a month can go by. With [...]
Monthly Insights: Busy Work & Adjustments – June 2020
It's been a spell since I got a post up here so it's time to get the wheels spinning again. Truth is my wheels have been spinning on a regular basis the last couple months. I thought I [...]
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~Lao Tzu