Last Tuesday I was walking down Alum Cave trail from the summit of Mount LeConte. It was my second day of summiting the mountain and the fourth day of hiking over a five-day weekend. I was feeling clear, balanced, grounded, a bit tired, and interestingly…decluttered. It suddenly struck me, on that beautiful trail, that there …
Back-to-back hikes the past two days gifted the healing power of flowers. Purple ones, blue ones, white ones, yellow ones, pink ones, fringed ones, striped ones with waves of wild blue phlox fragrance wafting on the breeze. That mixture of jasmine and lavender smell is intoxicating, or seems to be, as I wandered through woodlands …
I was recently listening to a podcast called Living Myth by Michael Mead. He was talking about change and how we crave it yet have within us a fear of change and so push against it. I reflected on how much change is needed on a political scale in our country and around the world…the corruption, the …
Imagine our Sun, in about 5 billion years, expanding into a red giant star. After it uses the hydrogen at its core, it will swell dramatically and engulf Mercury, Venus, and most likely Earth. Before then, the Sun will brighten gradually at about 1% every 100 million years. This will make Earth’s surface too hot …
Today is a special day for me. My love ‘letter’ to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is being released. It’s filled with passion, adoration, and love. As a child my family would come here on vacations and I never wanted to leave. In fact, I’d get emotionally distraught when it was time to go …