October 21, 2020, Juniper Pass, Colorado The clouds didn't make sense. They were rising in the north, high above skyline, towering into the upper atmosphere as I drove my kids to school along Evergreen Parkway. We got to the S-curves and it finally made sense. Those weren't clouds in the colloquial sense, they were towering […]
September 12, 2013, on the banks of the Bhagirathi, Gangotri, Uttarakhand, India "The river is insane," Wende texted via satellite. I was confused: She couldn't know that, at that moment, I was sitting on the bank of a raging Bhagirathi River in the hamlet of Gangotri. Sure, she of course knew I was in India, […]
The world lost a legend yesterday with the passing of Kancha Sherpa, the last living member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition and, along with Jim Whittaker, the only living members of the 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition. I didn't know Kancha well, but was fortunate to spend a couple days with him in […]
During this season of trying to give happiness, and as we look to the new year still immensely complicated by pandemic, war, and strife, we need to look deeper at what brings happiness to us, and to the world.
croatia, Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, love
Read MoreImpermanence is often a dirty word in the Western world, but with thought and acceptance, it is a massive positive, and a brush with eternity.
impermanence, inspiration, perspective, Thursday Thought
Read MoreA wildlife utopia, Salisbury Plain and other parts of remote South Georgia may soon be impacted by an iceberg the size of Rhode Island.
Antarctica, climate change, South Georgia, travel
Read MoreA brush with a Damara tribesman in the hinterlands of South Africa and lessons about forgiveness and the unbreakable human spirit.
forgiveness, inspiration, perspective, south africa
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