A forum for intentional words by women on wildness, wilderness and outdoor adventure.
Gratitude is a wild act. To give thanks is to validate, to participate, to close the circle: to project energy, love and light toward someone or something outside of oneself, perpetuating a gift-economy far more lucrative than profit-driven capitalism. Gratitude presupposes a belief in inter-being: the idea that humans exist not only as individuals, but as vertices …
There are some who can live without wildness…. and some who cannot. Aldo Leopold I am one who cannot. Canyonlands, autumn 2015: Early morning. I wake early and heat water and quietly step outside, trying not to wake Fred. I grab my chair and place it for the view. …
Ten days ago winter took its first deep breath and exhaled across Yellowstone National Park. It rolled over Electric Peak and Sepulcher Mountain to the northwest, then over the wide open face of Mount Everts to the east and Bunsen Peak to the south. Soon the entire park was shrouded in snow and cloud. When …
History knows Promontory Summit, a small non-town in Utah's middle-top latitudes, as the place where, in 1869, a Golden Spike (actually several) was (were) driven to link the tracks of the Central and Union Pacific Railroads, completing the nation's first transcontintental railway. An NPS museum and visitor center mark the spot; in back, two live …
There is a healing quality to nature..... No matter how hard I try, I find myself taking things for granted. Things that I would not expect. Everyday things. Like vision. I’ve been thankful for incredible views, for the ability to use my body to get to those views. But, I’m not sure that I’ve ever …
Writing the Wild 