I do my best thinking while hiking. Hiking is like meditation or dreaming. I am usually breathing too hard to have a conversation with anyone, even if I am hiking with someone, and so my brain is free to mull over new events in my life. I have a lot of new challenges to process.
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El Camino: A Transformative Experience I took a coronoviraus “separation incentive program” in spring of 2021 from my university, then my brother passed away in…
2 CommentsMother nature’s palette of colors keeps rearranging With dawn and dusk light constantly changing Canyon walls are enchanting, with petroglyphs chanting, Reminding us the land…
Leave a CommentOn our trip, Alaska grizzlies looking for fish, From the raft, to see them feeding is my wish, Not near my tent, hiking, or in…
Leave a CommentLarge and impressive these mammals, crossing the Savannah plain, Remembering friends and foes, they are long lived with a large brain, Kilimanjaro highest peak on…
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Leave a CommentWorth sharing students’ responses in our first Environmental Policy Foundation’s class. Students were given the prompt to identify a policy, rule, tradition, or custom they…
Leave a CommentA colleague, Steve Kahl, also a teaching professor, sent me an article on ChatGPT, published just a few months ago in November, (link below), which…
Leave a CommentTook one of my favorite humans to one of my favorite NH geologic wonders- Turtle Mountain- site of a large volcano- estimated by some to…
Leave a CommentPouring rain on Saturday, so no skiing, instead showed Jim Mt. Agassiz. (I hiked in my new GORE-TEX rainpants by Mountain Hardware, best I’ve ever…
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