Ideas & Insights

Friend, What Can I Do?

A homeless man reached out to me the other day, he was young but his shoulders were hunched over and his chest collapsed. He was...

You Can’t Step In The Same River Twice…

After 29 days of living and sleeping outdoors with 21 days of them in Grand Teton National Park, people have asked me, "aren't you tired...

Finding Your Guidepost

Sometimes we reach a crossroads in life. Old ways, old paths pull at us telling us to keep the status quo. Yet there is something...

Wait 5 Minutes…

My son and I were standing on the prairie, looking out at the clouds rolling in. A black sheet of ominous rain appeared on the...

Big Horn Mountains and Shoshone National Forest (Part 2)

We continued on down through the Big Horn mountains, the scenery gradually changing. The geology  was similar to Needles highway (see Needles highway post) in...

Big Horn Mountains and Shoshone National Forest (Part 1)

June 28, 2016   My son asked me to be his teacher this summer instead of summer camp. The Rocky Mountains called us, so taking...

Light in the Darkness…

  Photo credit: The Milky Way as seen from Shenandoah National Park, by John Messner. Sometimes in times of transition, all we can see is...

How Much Aliveness Can You Bear? (Part 2)

"One of the things that is interesting about children is how much appetite they have...but also how conflicted they can be about their appetites. Anybody...