works of wanderlust

Category: wandering & thinking

  • Sylvan

    This language of mine is so filled with clever words meant to precisely describe many things. Other words have meanings that are soft, fluid and flexible that they are used to describe concepts so vast as to make the boundaries of those definitions fuzzy and flexible. To me, sylvan feels like on of those words.

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  • A Blogging Good Anniversary

    A Blogging Good Anniversary

    I occasionally allude to an interesting-to-me fact: I’ve been posting my thoughts online in the form of blogs for a long time. To give that claim some context, as of today I have been a blogger for twenty years. That’s right. On April 20, 2001, twenty years ago to today, I posted my first dispatch

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  • Douglas Fir

    Look up but watch where you’re going. On a recent trip to the mountains I was reminded of the diversity of the forest and the interesting world of trees. I may not work in the field, but I have a four year university degree in biology which included more ecology, botany, and entomology coursework than

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  • pihêsiwin ᐱᐦᐁᓯᐏᐣ

    I need to get serious for a post. I had a tough conversation at work yesterday about racism. One of my coworkers had been slurred while out walking in our otherwise beautiful trails… because of his visible ancestry. Really. I mean… *ugh* I have a lot of conversations like this recently. Simultaneously not enough talk

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  • One Hundred Daily Posts

    It’s Saturday, and while there are a dozen other things I could write about this morning I wanted to pause for a moment and reflect on a milestone. One hundred posts. I started this blog on the first of January and keeping apace of a single post each and every day since New Years Day

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