During a Be Wilder Backpacking + Wayfinding Adventure retreat last year with Jayne Fought of Island Ford Adventures, we invited our participants to “sit spot” on the last day by a waterfall. The sun was out and it was a truly glorious morning. Hilarious because the two days before were sleeting/snowing and about 37 degrees. […]
Organization
Three feet from everything you want
I’d just settled in for my sit spot this morning, adjusted my sweatshirt, got my seat comfy, and sighed in pleasure as the bright sunshine hit my body in just the right way, when I heard my little cat Kovu inside the house scratching hard at the window above me. He regularly paws at the […]
Cattywampus
This world we live in is loud, over-stimulating, and A LOT sometimes, isn’t it? If you’re like me, you lose yourself in it sometimes. Your center goes all cattywampus. The answer to find your Center? Gifting yourself time away from social media, away from the television, away from so many other people’s views and opinions… […]
Go with the flow
Literally, I love to “go with the flow.” I’ve been kayaking, rafting, and swimming for as long as I can remember. Me and water just go together! Metaphorically, it’s a practice for me let go and flow with what’s happening. Martha also says, “Be in constant creative response to whatever is in front of you.” […]
Are you “river people?”
I LOVE re-reading some of my journal posts from various river trips. “It is GLORIOUS waking up with the sun. It’s slow and easy. not hurried or abrupt or rushed.’ “Woke up to pee and looked up at the stars – GLORIOUS!” “We saw a Condor! It was way up the thermal drafts.” “Little things, […]
Looking for critters
As we prep for August’s adventure on the Main Salmon River in Idaho – a wild and scenic place – part of the fun knowing what critters to be on the lookout for! The Salmon River Canyon provides a habitat for an abundant and varied wildlife resource. Big game species commonly observed along the river […]