By Kent Nerburn It is a mystery why we fall in love. It is a mystery how it happens. It is a mystery when it comes. It is a mystery why some loves grow, and it is a mystery why some loves fail. You can analyze this mystery and look for reasons and causes, but you will never do any more than take the life out of the experience. Love is more than the sum of…
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Happy New Year! For the first time in a very long time, I wasn’t working at a restaurant on New Year’s Eve. For that reason, I felt the urge to do something to ring in 2012. Go watch some fireworks? Go to a bar? Surely if I’m not working I should be doing something exciting. What I really wanted however, was to sit on the couch with Brian, eat potato chips and gummy worms and…
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College basketball coach Jimmy Valvano gave this speech at the ESPY awards eight weeks before he died of cancer. It is one of my favorites and I watch it whenever I need a reminder about living fully every day. “To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should…
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau At sixteen years old, I checked out Thoreau’s book Walden at the library which, looking back seems like oddly heavy material for a teenage girl. I’m positive I did not read the entire…
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It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for awhile and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. ~Edward Abbey
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