The goal of 10,000 steps a day is an arbitrary number.
Category Archives: environment
Tranquil Reflections
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. —LaoZi These are trying times. With all the constant communications channels blaring 24/7 non-stop anxiety, each morning can seem like a fire-walk across a bed of glowing coals. Embers and ashes of what could have been lie on the ground, as constant reminders of what’s been lost. …
Human-Nature
I am certain we will witness the birth of a Neo-Transcendentalism in the 21st Century
Fat Bear Week is Here: Vote Today
Enjoy a fun, new live sporting competition. Katmai National Park and Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week has arrived. Each year the park holds a celebration of the brown bear’s ability to fatten up for the winter. This fattening up process is critical to the bears’ survival. You can see the various contestants and learn more …
Slow Walking the Apocalypse: 1
Powerful forces are preventing serious action on climate change.
Wanderment in the City
An energy rises in the pulse when wandering along. Your body desires the feeling of wanderment- the act of wandering, roaming – and you can recharge your spirit by wandering through a city.
Recipe for Joy in Life’s Berry Patch
A somewhat satirical extended metaphor Some of the sweetest berries grow among the sharpest thorns. – Gaelic Proverb Life is like a berry patch The thick brambles of challenges Can seem like impenetrable obstacles Though the passage requires effort Take mindful steps Discover the way forward Prickly sorrowful thorns abound While wounds of disappointment And …
Born from this World – a poem
You are born from this world.
Free Essay Collection July 12
China’s over three hundred million Millennials remain relatively unknown internationally. They are the wellspring for the Chinese Dream. Chinese, Dreaming is a collection of writing and cultural observations about modern China selected from thousands of university students.
Cosmically Connected
…the heavens are filled, you are part of it, there is bliss. This state takes place when the mind sees the falseness of attempts to become, to achieve. There is a state of timelessness only when there is no observer. – Krishnamurti
