Category: Outdoors
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Dirty Hands = Happy Heart
NOTE: I began this article just before COVID-19 became a global crisis, shutting down travel industries, then local gatherings and even restaurants and bars. I am no health professional or scientist, but my second brain screams loudly that in the midst of a global pandemic, outside is exactly where we need to be. You can…
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Hugging Trees May Have Health Benefits
Many years ago, I was going on a hike that one of my dearest friends could not join. When I talked to her the day before, she casually said “hug a tree for me” and as silly as it sounds to some, that was a request I intended to honor. I did… and I was…
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Clear morning, foggy head
As a dog mom with a full job time and a long commute, walks begin sometime around 5:00am. I’m not gonna lie, as the winter creeps into Nashville and the mornings become crisp there are some 5a’s that I just wanna roll right past me ~ by a few hours would be nice. Though on…
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Look up, Child!
Best views may be above us, signs of how we should turn in life are from above. God is above us all, look up child!
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Flower Killers
Don’t let anyone trample your figurative flowers. Nurture yours and the flowers of others
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Glimpses of kindness
So, I’m on this hiking trail and meet a doctor and a lawyer…. there’s a joke in there somewhere, isn’t there? There just has to be! What if I add that I meet said doctor and attorney from my little spot on the ground where I’d just rolled my ankle and sat, stunned and helpless?…
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High Attitude
ThE view : top of Gunner’s View ski run on Snowmass Mountain. A long, sweeping, interactive ski run built for speed AND curves. It’s my favorite. My body hates high altitude, hates it. This old temple tries to seek vengeance on me for subjecting it to the horrors of thin, dry air. Gastro issues, headaches,…
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Fontana…his view and mine
When I asked a boyfriend once to list great moments we’d had…our lists were a little different. It was cool to relive some moments because of that chat. At the top of both lists was a paddle and three-night camp at Fontana Lake, on the south edge of the Smokies. He would have his technical…
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Coming into focus
Since this blog is about the view, there must be mention of the work you sometimes have to do to get to ‘the view’. The hike to the Twin Arches at Big South Park is a fantastic trek that many of my friends and I have taken several times and still love. There’s this magical…
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Nurture 
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