Most everyone I know is struggling with the state of the world, especially the deconstruction of the country I call home. Add to that the Climate Crisis, which is not only being ignored but worsened by the current administration, and species extinction occurring at an alarming rate, desecration of oceans, lands, national parks, national forests…there’s …
Have you ever visited a place and it immediately felt like home? A place like this stirs us to feel peaceful, grounded, at home within ourselves. There are a many places that have felt that way to me but a few stand out. Diving in Bonaire…being underwater, relaxed with the local sea turtle population gliding through clear, …
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 …