Off practicing for a long while. So here's some granite and water for you in the meantime. I'll miss the poets, adventurers, and nature people. 🙏💚

Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness: Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds. --Everett Ruess #mountain #nature #cloud #colorado

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is. --Everett Ruess

I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself? --Everett Ruess

Lake Wanaka on a December morning.

I’m gonna post this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what Donald Trump did to the USA on Jan 6th

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. --- James Baldwin #VotingRights #Vote

1/ In paragliding you never know where you'll end up.

High Quiet Lonesome Evening Deep in the mountains.

Some things Without Reflection Some things with.

Animals still eat each other, all day, every day. And here I am, bluesky and All. This little blue ball we have is pretty intense🌍 And makes no sense.

For you, I know you Like gathering Stories In Spring.

Vigilance

Mercury Venus Ocean Mars Jupiter Saturn Neptune Uranus

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams... ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.” ― Georgia O'Keeffe

Once it's all said and done, there will still be the wind.

A forest tree cannot help a lonely tree in its battle for existence, because such a battle requires the knowledge of loneliness! ― Mehmet Murat ildan (View NW to Saturna's Brown Ridge across Boundary Pass from Jones Is., San Juans, WA)

The clouds lifted and we came upon the home of an alpine flower nestled in the rocky soil of an exposed ridgeline. Way out there, the existential contrast of a creature so fragile alongside the geologic scale of the place, it fractured me. A million selves all feeling and looking everywhere at once.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

Cerro Parido, Ignacio Chavez WSA, NM. #desert #southwest

The aspens at 10,000ft are starting to bud, although this week we'll have clouds and showers. The trails are empty and the running is primo. #trailrun #mountain #running

It was just like when we were kids and we heard about a river no one had ever fished out on the huckleberry plains beyond the Sturgeon and the Pigeon. -Ernest Hemingway (In spring, Rio Chama Wilderness, NM, and the endangered river provide clarity and solitude.) #NewMexico #wilderness #waterislife

The real heroes of the Epstein story open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. --William Shakespeare

Gila Wilderness, NM in the spring is a lonely and lovely place to be. The Gila River is an endangered river. #packrafting #NewMexico #Spring #River #endangered

Good night wild beings.

Woke and getting ready for the day. #mountains #glacier #mountaineering #camping #hiking #Cascades #Washington

#Momnibus #Women #Healthcare How men use religion to control women, especially women of color.

As do I

Rio Grande and the Blanca group. #river #mountain #nature #sunset

Black Maternal Health is a public health crisis.  This Black Maternal Health week we are supporting and uplifting the Momnibus legislation—designed to end preventable maternal health death in America. It's time to put an end to the maternal health crisis.

The frontier isn’t always a place. Sometimes it’s a season of your life. The space between who you were and who you might still become. ― D. Lee (Deep in the Pickets, looking westward down the Baker River to Shuksan and Mt. Baker, Cascades, WA.) #mountain #sunset #alpine #hiking #nature

Pretty kale In my garden Dancing under Midday sun, and Cirrostratus. #garden #flower

You win some, and you lose some. Like the story of the son of the Chinese farmer The outcomes along the way Seem like the whole story At the time. Suddenly, life happens, and the story And outcome, are changed. #bikepacking #Arizona #nature #hiking (Bikepacking Midnight Canyon, AZ at Christmas time)

Off Practicing.

Climbing a #Colorado classic, Stairway to Heaven, on a cold winter day in Eureka, CO. #waterfall #wedensday

Your sacred space is where you find yourself again and again. — Joseph Campbell Do we all have them? Sometimes, I think so. One of summertime places. #SanJuans, #Colorado #mountain #nature #trailrun #running

Lenticulars on the mountain this morning. #trailrun #southwest #desert

Good night wild beings. May your dance with the noturn rituals be peaceful. Here's a peaceful one for ya. youtu.be/r7JkTa3uul4?...

Climber on the north buttress of Mount Goode, with Bishop Creek and Cloudripper in the Inconsolable Range in the background. Sierra Nevada, CA. #mountain #climbing #SierraNevada #nature (A fun day out with a good friend)

South Teton seen from high on the Middle Teton at sunset. #mountain #sunset

Gliding out from the mountain. #paragliding

Spring is a strange time for us paragliders. We often fly in small windows between very potent air masses. It's been windy lately, but its always nice when its calm enough to break the phone out, like the other day. #paragliding #spring #wx #weather

Good Morning, wild beings. Artists show us the way. هدنة, "Hudna" means truce in Arabic. There are many deep parts of the meaning of hudna. Primarily it refers to temporary pause in a plot, a loss of innocence & tranquility. youtu.be/qWr7o65yBOc?...

The campaign slogan needed here in the US! @demwomencaucus.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.org

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." — Franklin D. Roosevelt (Lummi Is. view)

The Matukituki River valley, Buchanan Peaks, and the ever-present tussock fields. #Otago #NewZealand #Wanaka #matukituki

That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken. —Ellen Dreyer, The Glow Stone (Pine Lake reflects an unnamed strong piece of Sierra granite)

Spring time in the mountains, after the snow, and before the oaks turn green. #trailrun #spring #newmexico (Finally some rain came later today)