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 […]
Note: As I was finishing this post - still very much in the draft form you'll find below - my daughter came in to my office to alert me of an active shooter situation at Evergreen High School, where both kids and many friends attend. By good fortune, both our children were off campus when […]
Mountains of Memories, perspective, photography
Read MoreA brief moment along the dusty road from Lake Manasarovar to Nyalam, Tibet, gazing across dunes and rivers to remote peaks beyond.
photography, Tibet, Western Tibet
Read MoreNeed a break from the news, from the world, a moment to escape to another place, another time? Me, too. This short-term newsletter may do the trick for us all!
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Read MoreI’ve been thinking about perceptions and perspectives quite a bit recently, as I alluded to in my last blog post, questions about what’s going on in our world, near and far, how we look at it, how/can it be better. In a nutshell, I’m guessing a lot of you - regardless perhaps of political ilk […]
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