Two days ago, a great light in our world was extinguished when Mike Peters breathed his last. Mike was a musician best known for founding The Alarm, a Welsh band he started in 1981 that went on to fame, playing with the likes of Bob Dylan and U2. While his music was great, it was […]
Together, let's go higher than Everest to raise funds in honor of Sam Heughan's 45th birthday and support dZi Foundation in its support of and partnership with 50,000 people in rural eastern Nepal.
I love spring runs, and today was no exception. The morning air was crisp, a faint frost coating aspen catkins, mist enshrouding the reservoir, no sound aside from my footfalls and the cheery hoots of a Northern Saw-whet Owl. Up ahead the trail split, a fork I’ve arrived at many times before. The choices were […]
As I ran through the soggy mountains this Juneteenth morning, I thought about my clichés, about our clichés, about our collective desire to cling to them, and the courage it takes to see them as they are: trite and hackneyed expressions and concepts that often overlook the nuance of reality.
cliches, perspective, politics
Read MoreGenealogy fascinates me; it always has. Maybe it’s a nod to my childhood cemetery tours with my grandfather in Alton, Illinois, him pointing to carved blocks of granite and recounting stories of the bodies that lay beneath. For me, those “tours” were a roadmap of the past, a means of understanding and comprehending my history […]
perspective, politics, race in America
Read More“Let us… seek peace… near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pageantry of the skies. Let us leave ‘life,’ that we may live.”
- Mary Shelley
nature, perspective, Quotations
Read MoreThe 1924 Camp II was the last of the pre-World War II camps on Mount Everest I had yet to find and visit. After some legwork, Sid Pattison and I were able to locate it.
Everest, Everest 1924, everest 2019, Everest History, History
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