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Category Archives: Different Modes of Exploration
Familiar
In contrast to newness, many, many places feel familiar. Vistas and view points, places to sit and contemplate, places to hide from crowds on certain days of the week, trees and streams that glisten in the right light for your … Continue reading
Clouds
So much has already been said about clouds. And how could it not be so? So often around us. Always changing, shifting, moving. Offering patterns and shapes to the sky, ripples and refractions of light, alerts to the oncoming storm, … Continue reading
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Nature’s Design
In most every walk there are frames of wonder. Pausing at each, can turn a short stroll into an extensive adventure. But just one close examination, embeds a memory of a walk along the Central Oregon Coast with a mentor … Continue reading
The Sound of a Tree
I assume that once hollowed, there comes a moment when the structure can no longer hold. And in a flash, the tree explodes and crumbles, crashes to the ground and shatters into sound. I assume. Because as the proverbial tree … Continue reading
Newness Invokes the Beginner’s Mind
What more needs to be said than simply that; newness invokes the beginner’s mind. And it is that beginner’s mind that lights up when we travel, triggers synapses and dopamine responses, fuels creativity, fires up the hot savor of life. … Continue reading
Always in Memory
I assume there are places we hold in our mind’s eye, in our heart’s adoration, for as long as our life will allow. Whether from the remarkable beauty of that place, or the repetition of our return to a certain … Continue reading
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Newness
I often have the same thought landing and walking somewhere new: all my life this has gone on here. Waves have rolled onto this coast; the wind has whipped against these trees; families have driven up this dirt road and … Continue reading
Surfaces
Virtues of Travel: Part 4 For my own part I am pleased enough with surfaces– in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child’s hand in your … Continue reading
The Greatest Journey
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveler, if you are in search of That Don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek … Continue reading
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