What I wish for us all: Peace: The inner peace of self-acceptance as well as the outer peace of acceptance of others. Joy: The inner joy of recognizing your beauty as well as the outer joy of friends and family. Love: The inner love of loving yourself as well as the outer love of friends …
Venice Belongs To The Water
The lake looks angry, my Dad said as he parked the car, then hopped in the back seat to wait with the baby. My husband and I crossed the parking lot and headed lakeward, under the hill whose big white house had hosted our wedding reception. We hopscotched between water-slick stone and mud paths, trying …
In My Place
"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Lyndon Johnson My life revolves around public lands; lands …
Encounters of the Wild Kind
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! This week we give thanks to Leslie Patten for contributing the following story to Writing the Wild. Leslie lives on the eastern side of Yellowstone National Park in a remote valley that is home to wolves, grizzly bears, cougars and elk. She is the author of The Wild Excellence: Notes from Untamed America. She …
When Snow Calls….
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ....Wallace Stegner It snowed this week. Dropped everything. Dropped a town run. Dropped cleaning the house. Dropped laundry. Dropped making the bed. When snow calls, I ski. Skis. Boots. Poles. Thrown in the truck, there to …
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