“when i stood alone on the gentle swell of the prairies in my youth and felt the sting or caress of the wind and held my head to the skies and breathed the hope of the blue and white and gold of the freedom above the horizon i was less alone than i have everContinue reading “in other words // sweet solitude”
Tag Archives: travel
everything flows // age of aquarius
“sometimes i go about pitying myself, and all the while i am being carried on great winds across the sky.” -the lakota sioux amidst the afterglow of the holidays and the promise of my january birthday, i spend a lot of time ruminating. and gallivanting. ruminating and gallivanting – both inside and out. takingContinue reading “everything flows // age of aquarius”
walking among giants
we walk amongst the giants, that we may never lose sight of our relative importance. the undisciplined tongue
untainted by man
there is no adequate way to describe what it feels like to summit. to push yourself harder than you think possible. to see the world from a place most never will. to drink in air untainted by man. to hear total and utter silence. ah, yes, words are inadequate. mt. belford, 14, 203′ and mt.Continue reading “untainted by man”
in other words // roots
“are we misled by the fact that we move freely on the earth and are not rooted to it in the same way as trees to the ground or fingers to the hand?”-alan watts, cloud-hidden, whereabouts unknown the undisciplined tongue
back on top
because there’s somethingso satisfyingabout knowing you’ve reachedthe highest point.of anything. the undisciplined tongue
colorado love affair
i have a requited love for colorado. i belong here. i feel like i’ve lived thousands of years and thousands of lives here. and that’s not true of every place i’ve called home. i knew some were temporal. but not this one. on any given day, i can open any one of my maps, putContinue reading “colorado love affair”