“That’s the whole secret: to do things that excite you.” – Ray Bradbury Truth be told, there are many things we do every day that aren’t exciting, yet we keep on doing them anyway. This is the attractive rut of doing the same thing: familiar and predictable and comfortable. But does it stir the soul?…
Hard rain and fog don’t lend to an optimal hiking experience. But that’s what greeted us as we drove up A855. This was to be the one day where the weather mattered most on the entire trip, and the weather wasn’t good. Disappointed, I scratched Quirang off the list. But I held out hope for…
Captain John Smith is usually associated with Jamestown and Pocahontas. And he’s most famous for his relationship with the Native American tribes in Virginia. Smith was proactively aggressive with hostile tribes, but proactively friendly with peaceful tribes. There are plenty of examples in colonial history where hostile and peaceful tribes weren’t distinguished when it came…
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:From time to time my heart is like some oakWhose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.” — Arthur Rimbaud, Complete Works We all dream of things beyond the scope of our present situation. It’s human nature to dream, and we tend to collect dreams like books waiting…
This week, on my drive from Buffalo to Seneca Falls, I made a quick detour to visit a rock. I live in the Granite State, so I know a thing or two about rocks, but the rock I was visiting is unique because of a tablet mounted to it commemorating the Treaty of Canandaigua on…
“What’s a more soulful way to live? What’s a way that I can benefit from the dynamism and prosperity of American society without having to play by these rules that keep us in a holding pattern?” – Rolf Potts, from his Deviate podcast Leave it to Rolf Potts to ask the question. The question that drives…