By all accounts, he wasn’t an easy man, my grandfather. He pushed hard, asked a lot, expected excellence - or at least excellent effort - from all around him. But, also by all accounts, he didn’t have the easiest beginnings, so his idiosyncrasies can at least be understood, if not justified. Sadly, I never met […]
November 24, 2005, Nimaj, Rajasthan, India It was impossible to capture him. His face was topographic, lines etched deep, a storybook of years spent smiling and laughing, toiling and struggling, living under the blazing sun of central Rajasthan. Wende and I were back in India, this time taking our mothers on (what was then) an […]
As I wrote Tuesday’s “Mountains of Memories” post Do Hard Things, the photo of my friend Peter atop Bienn a’ Chruliaste made me think not just of the beauty of wilderness solitude, but also the loneliness and isolation felt by me - perhaps by many - during our current challenging times. So, a Thursday Thought […]
Calling for ideas of what people want to see and learn about in the next interactive, gigapixel panorama of Mount Everest.
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Read MorePerfection is a utopian fallacy, and the path out of our current abyss resides in our ability to look in the mirror and make amends for what we see in the reflection.
frederick douglass, inspiration, james baldwin, perspective, politics, susan sontag, Thursday Thought
Read MoreIn this time of trouble and division, my mind is fogged, the path unclear. The only clarity I have is that we need more love.
james baldwin, love, Quotations
Read MoreAt a speech in Springfield, Illinois, in 1838, Abraham Lincoln foretold the tragic events we're seeing unfold today.
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