works of wanderlust

Category: wandering & thinking

  • Writing Up a Reason

    Something funny happened nearly three years ago in the months following a sad decision to shutter my sixteen-year-old blog. I did less. No, really. I took fewer photos. I went on fewer adventures. I engaged less and less with new projects. I virtually stopped attempting to tackle new skills. Admittedly, I was busier day-to-day with…

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  • Would You Rather Camp or Trek?

    Here’s a question for any outdoors person… given a year to do one or the other, and all things being equal, would you rather: Camp, in as much as you have a whole year to build an amazing setup in the wilderness, craft a log cabin with your own hands, spend your days foraging, building,…

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  • One Month Down, Many to Go

    February one. It is the first day of the second month of 2021 and so also the start of my second month of daily blogging here on castironguy.ca. I thought about writing of the challenge of finding time, space, and focus to write here every day for a whole month, and while those words may…

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  • Apricity

    One of my favourite winter words is apricity. a-PRIS-uh-tee Simply, it means the warmth of the sun in the winter. It is a poetic word, in a way. The word apricity has an ineffable quality in that it is difficult to articulate what it means to someone who has never gone for a long winter…

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  • I Don’t Know Much About Buddhism but…

    I’ve been using the name Bardo as a username for a few years, and it turns out that this is a word that I inadvertently borrowed from Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. I write “borrowed” because in real life my name is Brad. Brad becomes Bard becomes Bardo just so easily. Yet, having used it for a…

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