i feel like my brain is blossoming slowly outward...

what is right livelihood? and how do i live it? to be continued.

...another day older and deeper in debt. (sleep debt, that is.) i sold my soul to the company store! (read: whitman college ( Read more... )

shit. damn damn damn. today i realized something which has been brewing around my neurons for almost a year ( Read more... )

just rigged up a hammock at the house today. temps were "baby-bear" which is my new terrible slang for "just right." ate peaches and popsicles. ran twelve heinous miles in heinous heat, but smelled wheat chaff and saw sharpshinned hawks at bennington lake so it was ok ( Read more... )

salty scramble on the briny deep taught me more than i can say about paddling leadership and wilderness first aid. i saw michael's tibia bone and was reminded that we all have skeletons. whetted the appetite for more paddling adventures until it was sharp as flaked obsidian. sea otters, bull kelp, red sky at night ( Read more... )

Readers, don't be shocked, but I don't think I want to go back to Whitman ( Read more... )

This weekend was spent frolicking in the Marble Mountains. They really are made of marble (well, parts of them anyway-where we went, it was mostly granite). We didn’t get in far enough to explore the allegedly awesome system of limestone caves, or summit Marble Mountain itself, but we saw it from far off… a high, humped, jagged-edged massif ( Read more... )

I am here, in Seiad Valley, sitting in my tent, in the pouring rain, at dusk, typing this on my laptop ( Read more... )

dear world ( Read more... )

I am in Northern California. I am very remote from anything. To give you an idea, I would have to drive for two and a half hours in any direction from where I live in order to reach a stoplight. I am surrounded by steep mountains on all sides, and people give directions by saying “upriver” or “downriver.” People define where they are in terms of ( Read more... )