Looking for other Earth Day thoughts and inspiration? Check out these posts. As I sat down this morning at the keyboard to write - to write about the Earth, about Earth Day, about our world - my hands began quickly, almost automatically, to click out a treatise of doom, a tome of despair about the […]
To say that Everest has changed in a century is to grossly understate the matter. Physically, of course, the mountain has changed little. It’s a bit warmer perhaps, and bit less snowy. The monsoons are a bit more erratic. But it still rises high, steeply, to dizzying altitude and, as yet, there is no escalator […]
I’m tormented by the news these days. War in Ukraine. Horror in Israel and Gaza. Increasing tension and bluster across the globe. Political vitriol and animus domestically. It’s hard, sometimes impossible, to see a bright side, an outlet. So, I turned back to a post I wrote six months ago but never published, one about […]
Thoughts on autumn, a season of hope.
autumn, inspiration, perspective
Read MoreThe K2 expedition of 1953 was a lesson in teamwork and courage, and hold many messages for us to draw upon today.
We Americans - and, indeed, all humans - have more in common that we recognize. If we can seek out commonality rather than division, we can sow the seeds of unity and understanding.
Fear. We can let it consume us with certainty of failure — and failure we become — or we can turn it into focus, walk across that ladder, and embrace all we can be, all we want to be.
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