Category: Outdoors
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Rainbow Bridges and Other Goodbyes
Love leads and when lives end, grief rushes in and tries to take its place. I’m on a journey to keep the love alive, move forward WITH the grief. It will come along too. I will learn to cohabitate with it.
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Solo Soul Searching
It’s been two years and four months since I took a tent camping excursion into the Bankhead Forest, completely solo. It was just over a month into the nightmare that some called a ‘pandemic’, which continues on today, but the peace gained on that trip has long since faded. As I looked through a few…
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Ms. Maisy Grace
Camper renovation project became a little emotional rollercoaster before it was through. But it was finished just in time for a weeklong local camp! Well, glamp in my pretty new girl.
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Downsizing
I’ve never been one for having too much ‘stuff’. It all just becomes something to dust. Stuff hangs around as clutter. But somehow, I had still managed to collect a lot of if. In the summer of 2017 I owned two homes and had rented one to a friend for well under fair market rent.…
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Nature paid it forward
We have treated our poor life-giver badly, tossing plastic and masks and other trash about. But Mother Nature is strong, resilient. People, not so much. All origins of anything we have can be traced to a naturally occurring thing. Medicines, building materials, clean food and tools, fire and energy all come from her bounty.…
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Cagy no more
Oh my! Where did three entire months since I wrote anything I felt worthy of publishing go? Maybe I’ve been consumed with the world’s trash machine. I tried to stay neutral and silent in this world, but found myself sharing more of my opinions on LinkedIn. I have no idea why, it’s just added noise…
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Savage Life
Beauty and time in nature help heal the brain and the body. This is my big nature adventure to Savage Gulf backpack and hike.
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How Nature Helps Me Through COVID
I was written a one-way ticket to Depressedville in January 2020. I got fired and when my boss said the words, I felt a jolt. My pride was slapped, but combined with a wave of relief. I was free. I did not fit that company culture at all. I knew it – knew the exact…
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Stay Sane and Stay Safe – Can you have both?
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Staying sane and indoors too much don’t go together. We must have outdoor time. Nature is the safest place to be in the current environment.
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