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About mlgray

Heading out on adventures, building community, eating delicious cuisines, supporting the local food movement and enjoying walks in the wild . . . grateful to be wandering in the world with you.

Thoreau

Posted on January 5, 2014 by mlgray

If a man walks in the woods for his love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods … Continue reading →

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Nature.

Posted on November 26, 2013 by mlgray

Thoreau’s Walden, Muir’s Mountains of California, Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, and most recently, Brower’s Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run… I’ve been on a kick lately of reading authors’ intimate portrayals of their time in the natural world and the … Continue reading →

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Wandering Wisdoms: V.2

Posted on July 24, 2013 by mlgray

Tears have kept on falling. History has taught them its slanted understanding of the human face.  At each last embrace the snow brings down its disintegrating curtain. The mind shreds the present, once the past is over. — Galway Kinnel, … Continue reading →

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Travel Impressions, Distinctly Modern

Posted on July 14, 2013 by mlgray

Though I’ve now done this drive across California to Colorado more than a dozen times, nothing beats the thunderstorms that roar over the San Rafael Swell in the middle of nowhere, Utah. Each adventure across the 1000 miles that wander … Continue reading →

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Wandering Wisdoms: V.1

Posted on July 9, 2013 by mlgray

“To me too has not unrest been ordained, have not I too been endowed with a heart which knoweth not repose? The story-teller’s star — is it not the moon, lord of the road, the wanderer, who moves in his … Continue reading →

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A Wanderer Looks at 30: Unabridged

Posted on June 23, 2013 by mlgray

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is … Continue reading →

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A Wanderer Looks at 30: Part 3 – Imagination

Posted on June 22, 2013 by mlgray

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.” Stephen Hawking goes on to say, “Try to make sense of what you see, and always wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” Hawking’s call … Continue reading →

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A Wanderer Looks at 30: Part 2 – Love

Posted on June 21, 2013 by mlgray

“If you are lucky enough to find love, don’t throw it away.” Once again, I want to expand our concept of love.  I am most certainly blessed to be married to Lindsay and to become the father of our baby … Continue reading →

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A Wanderer Looks at 30: Part 1 – Work

Posted on June 20, 2013 by mlgray

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is … Continue reading →

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Yes, We’re at Dachau in the Winter

Posted on June 16, 2013 by mlgray

Something from the Vault: Volume 7 Reader warning: the subject matter of this essay is dark.  I’ve postponed writing it for a long time, but I feel a real responsibility to share this tale. I’m only now, nine years since … Continue reading →

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