Solitude or constant connection.

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous— to poetry,” -Sherry Turkle.  It has happened to me so often that from long hikes or just unplanned moments by myself for a longer period of time in the wilderness, things begin to flow like a spring of living water coming out from […]

AWE & WONDER

Just outside of our front porch stands a majestic redwood tree. It rises into the sky like Jack’s beanstalk, above the oaks and pines that dot the landscape. It is weathered and a little scraggly but shoots straight up in the gorgeous July sky. Everything around it pales in comparison and the hummingbirds dance through […]