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7 Rites to Perform Upon Finding a Dead Animal
The dappled fawn tangled in a line of barbed wire. Stop pedaling your bicycle. Dismount and quietly guide it to the wet, harried fur splayed out in the nodding grass. Continue reading
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6 Ways to Calculate a Universe in Flux
1. Arithmetic. Children learn early to call chaos to order, to safety-pin themselves to the cloth of the cosmos. I watch my two-year-old son, Max, develop this survival skill… Continue reading
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25 Things I Will Not Say About Wilderness
I will not say that wilderness is a tonic, balm, or medicine for the troubled soul; that most everyone has a troubled soul in need of moss’s healing touch and Continue reading
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14 Alaskan Vocabulary Words
1. Mount Denali. The subject of a postcard photograph to send home as a misleading boast of an adventure you haven’t yet had. 2. Outhouses. When nature calls, half the town Continue reading
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8 Life Lessons I Learned at the Grand Canyon
1. Believe. This canyon will test you, physically and mentally, but you’ve prepared well. Six months of physical training… Continue reading