With New England’s hills ablaze in their autumn foliage, it’s impossible not to see the forest for the trees. But the forest is made up of individual trees, each of which turns a characteristic color this time of year. Generally, it’s the maples that turn scarlet and the poplars and birch that go yellow and […]
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Dear Subscriber, I love knowing that you’re one of my readers! Thanks for subscribing. Posts go up on Wednesdays – when the technology’s working. However, due to a recent work stoppage by the munchkins in cyberspace who stamp, sort and send out my posts, these emails weren’t delivered for the past two weeks. Thanks to my […]
Learning Routines on the Trail – and at Home
By our second day on the trail, Jan and I recognized the importance of developing routines; by the end of our hike, we were discussing ways to implement similar routines at home. ON THE TRAIL With more backcountry experience than me, Jan had more camping routines down, and I learned a lot from her, from […]
Learn to Write from a Herd of Cows
At the recent Northern Woodlands Conference, novelist Jeffrey Lent described growing up on a mid-century hill farm in southwest Vermont, where his father kept sheep and cows. Lent told us that so little heat rose from the wood stove through the floor registers into his second-story bedroom that ice caked the windows, and he couldn’t […]
Overcoming Resistance With Presence
Monday marked my third week back in ordinary life, and a tsunami of resistance scattered my well-laid plans, smashing my productivity to sentence fragments. I returned to my Long Trail Journal for insight. My entry for my eleventh day on the trail reads, “A big day of overcoming resistance with presence.” My journal for my […]
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