I didn’t have to know . . . It was enough to trust that what I’d done was true. To understand its meaning without yet being able to say precisely what it was . . . It was everything. It was my life - …
Strewing: Looking Beyond Back to School
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. - Antoine de …
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Appreciating Diversity in Bellevue, Washington
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter As we sat at Lake Sammamish State …
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Deliberately Wandering to Cool Spots on Hot Days
I’d only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was. - Cherly Strayed, …
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How Does Your Food Make You Feel?
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds. ― Michael …
What Is Your Passion?
Almost every day for the past two years, my 10-year-old has asked to go fishing. Some days it has been possible and other days it has not. I often explain to him that there will be many things in his …
