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A Thousand Lifetimes
I left my cabin in the drizzle and dark. Beyond a bluff on the Oregon coast, gulls hovered and wheeled, their cries riding the wind above the waves. I pedaled my bike past pools left behind when the ocean abandoned the land. Haystack Rock stood in the surf like a mountain risen from the sea. On its grassy slope, puffins have dug nesting burrows for generations, a rhythm as enduring as the tide.
Death, Love, and Goats on Deception Pass
Hike/Climb 7 Views Three decades ago, while wandering through the Himalayas, I ventured from the Vale of Kashmir to Ladakh, a mountainous realm where some of the planet’s tallest peaks rise above a high plateau. Now, thirty years later, as I gaze into Deception Basin in the Olympic Mountains, the scenery is so reminiscent of Ladakh—green vegetation fringing a stream meandering through a rocky moonscape—that it feels as though a portal has opened.
Enter the Temple
You want to keep moving forward, but shrubs form a wall at the forest’s edge. You see no way in. As you explore the tangled greenery, you push and probe. Two branches swing open like doors—the first with a gentle push, the second with a vigorous shove. The branches close behind your back as you wander into the mansion of the forest, entering hidden rooms. Trees rub their trunks together, creaking like the boards of a haunted house. You laugh to calm your nerves.
The Quietest Sound
The Olympic Peninsula has the best place names of anywhere I’ve lived. Humptulips. Hamma Hamma. Wynoochee. Duckabush. My favorite – Dosewallips. At the end of autumn, when a window of clear weather opened, I traveled on a road alongside the Dosewallips River. Several years ago, a storm-swollen flow pulverized a stretch of pavement, closing the route to motorized vehicles.
Life on the Edge: The West Coast Trail
To prepare for the West Coast Trail on Canada’s Vancouver Island, find a ladder, preferably a wobbly one with a few rungs of questionable stability. Load your backpack and put it on. Then, climb up and down the ladder dozens of times while someone sprays you with a hose. What is the point of following a trail like the WCT into wilderness? If I’m limited to one word: perspective. Give me two words, and I’ll add humility. Allow me a third, and compassion completes the list.
Mercy of Giants - AdventuresNW
A humpback whale surfaced a hundred feet away, so close that whirlpools and waves rocked my paddleboard. For several days, I had hoped for a close encounter with a whale. While kneeling on my board and clutching its sides to keep from capsizing, I felt something I hadn’t expected: fear.
Fever at the Ocean’s Edge
After three years of avoiding COVID, it finally caught me. I got a Paxlovid prescription and went backpacking on the Olympic coast to battle the COVID demons at the ocean’s edge. Was it my fevered brain, or was the shoreline at Cedar Creek with its wave-sculpted sea stacks surreal? Did I actually see multiple orca pods hunting on two different days, observed from two different headlands? Gray whales migrating in the hundreds, chugging along like steam engines out in the blue sea?
The Immersion - AdventuresNW
Near the High Divide of Olympic National Park, I entered the sapphire waters of Hoh Lake and snorkeled with thousands of pollywogs. These tadpoles were all squiggling in the same direction: clockwise. I matched my swimming pace to their movement, and together we traveled through the shallows along the shore.
Remembering Jerry Gorsline
Just before Jerry Gorsline died he loaned me a book: “Black Brant: Sea Goose of the Pacific Coast.” We had exchanged stories about this bird through email; Jerry was eager to get the book into my hands. When I went to his home to pick it up, he was having difficulty breathing. Though Jerry’s physical health was poor, two of his core attributes remained intact: his deep appreciation for the natural world, and his generosity.
Online and face-to-face extended brief interventions for harmful alcohol use: Client characteristics, attendance and treatment outcomes.
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Dam Nation: Running Out of Water in the West
Scientists agree that regions in the West are heating up and drying out. “Dam Nation” by Stephen Grace presents a crash-course on the complex history of water in the West and explains how future water shortages will expose the startling fragility of civilization. GLOBE PEQUOT PRESS During the frenzied days of early emigration and expansion in the West, running out of water was rarely a concern, and a dam-building fever filled empty spaces with cities and farms.
News | Making Flirting | Australia’s Premier Online Movie Magazine | Filmink
In Australian cinema, there are two things that we don’t do much of: teen films and sequels. Making it something of a true original, John Duigan’s sensitive, honest, and often awkwardly hilarious 1991 comedy-drama, Flirting, is both.
2016 Colorado Book Award Finalists
Congratulations to the 2016 Colorado Book Award Finalists Colorado Humanities & Center for the Book are proud to announce the finalists in the 2016 Colorado Book Awards. AnthologyGoing Down Grand: Poems from the Canyon by Pete Anderson and Rick Kempa, editors (Lithic Press)Abbey in America: A Philosopher's Legacy in a New Century by John A. Murray, editor(University of New Mexico Press)Stories of Music, Volume 1 by Holly E.
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