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You've Got a Friend in Me: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Natural World

You've Got a Friend in Me: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Natural World

To change the world requires us to radically alter the way we think about our relationship with it. See what that means in this week’s piece.

Posted on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Health and Wellness, Mindfulness, Nature, Writing8 Minutes Read

Australia Burning: What’s Happening and How to Help

Australia Burning: What’s Happening and How to Help

Australia is burning. How bad is it? What can we do?

Posted on January 20, 2020March 21, 2020 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Nature, News5 Minutes Read

Emergency Blog Post: Trump’s Attack on Our National Parks

Emergency Blog Post: Trump’s Attack on Our National Parks

Posted on July 4, 2019July 4, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Activism, Nature4 Minutes Read

In Through the Out Door: How Going Out Into Nature Leads Us In to Our Truest Selves

In Through the Out Door: How Going Out Into Nature Leads Us In to Our Truest Selves

Posted on May 6, 2019June 3, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Health and Wellness, Nature, Personal Essay7 Minutes Read

How Nature Makes Us Better

How Nature Makes Us Better

Posted on October 16, 2018October 16, 2018 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Nature, Uncategorized1 Minute Read

Adventure Time: Redefining Adventure for Everyone

Adventure Time: Redefining Adventure for Everyone

Posted on August 8, 2018December 10, 2018 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Adventure, Health and Wellness, Nature7 Minutes Read

The Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Meditation on Frost’s Two Roads

The Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Meditation on Frost’s Two Roads

Posted on July 30, 2018June 3, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Literature, Nature, Poetry6 Minutes Read

A Monster Hike: Arethusa Falls and Frankenstein Cliffs

A Monster Hike: Arethusa Falls and Frankenstein Cliffs

Posted on July 13, 2018July 8, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Hiking, Nature, Personal Essay6 Minutes Read

Nature Boys from the ‘Hood

Nature Boys from the ‘Hood

Posted on May 16, 2018June 3, 2019 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Hiking, Nature, Profile10 Minutes Read

Why Climbing Matters

Why Climbing Matters

Posted on April 18, 2018May 24, 2018 by Live Life OutdoorsIn Argument, Climbing, Community, Health and Wellness, Hiking, Nature11 Minutes Read

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Finding Greater Meaning in the Mundane. This podcast is a companion piece to the essay, “Denkwork: the Promise of Work, and the Work of Promises”, from September of 2019

https://livelifeoutofdoors.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/20200903_hiddenbrain_hb_r58_-_meaning_at_work_-_092020_-_full.mp3

The Secret to self control is giving up control.

https://youtu.be/tTb3d5cjSFI

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“It is necessary to be sometimes exclusive, not on behalf of wealth or rank, but of those human qualities that can apprehend loneliness.”

Nan Shepherd

Spring is fast approaching here in the Northeasern United States. It’s time to emerge from our dens and spend even more time outdoors

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