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02/22/2024

With presence, there's no agenda. Nothing to do and no place to be. There's no thinking. Just being.
Because we have chosen to be in the presence of something we value, appreciate or find amazing, our experience of that moment is nourishing and powerful. Waiting, when done with intention, is one way to be fully present.

Jake Eagle LPC, The Power of Awe: Overcome Burnout & Anxiety, Ease Chronic Pain, Find Clarity & Purpose―In Less Than 1 Minute Per Day

02/21/2024

"I speak my mind because it hurts to bite my tongue.
The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it.
It's not over till it's over.
Imagination is everything.
All life is an experiment.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly."
-Pat Frayne in Tales of Topaz the Conjure Cat

My first encounter with a pygmy owl in Yellowstone. I am beginning to believe that perhaps I can reinvent myself as a wildlife photographer in my 60s. Time to become the butterfly.

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01/25/2024

“I had forgotten the way that the earth takes on another form in the winter. It pulls out a coat of white from its seasonal closet to beautify its wardrobe. But winter is smart. It is actually distracting us, glossing over the truth: It is simply protecting itself from the bitter cold of the world.”
― Viola Shipman, The Secret of Snow

08/23/2023

In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, there are several mama grizzly bears that raise their cubs near the roads to decrease the threat from male bears killing their offspring for a chance to mate. I first met this grizzly in 2021 as a COY (newborn cub-of-the-year). For my birthday this year, the universe gifted me another visit with this bear and his twin. Now 2.5 year old subadults, I hope they go on to live long grizzly lives in the land that I so love.

08/03/2023

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".”
― Laurell K. Hamilton

07/06/2023

"So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are wiser than we are, as long as we do not listen to them. But when we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.”
― Herman Hesse, Bäume: Betrachtungen und Gedichte

11/19/2022

We usually visit Norris Geyser Basin in the mid afternoon. This time we walked the upper pathway just after sunrise. The colors were more vibrant, the steam more prevalent, and the sounds enveloped my whole being. We were all alone in this vast thermal area. I imagined what it must have been like when the First People came upon it when hunting or exploring. My soul stood still taking it all in; breathing in the peace it offered.

11/14/2022

He came up from the foggy bottom of the Yellowstone River and traveled a well rehearsed trail towards the expansive sage plains across the road. The first of many frosty mornings he will follow this path through the cold bitter winter. I hope we cross paths again in the spring.

11/04/2022

Winter is sitting on the edge of fall in Yellowstone. The morning fog mixed with steam from the hot springs at Artist Paint Pots looked like a scene from Narnia.

10/31/2022

Have you ever stood in the place between heaven and earth? I stumbled upon this ethereal place while visiting Yellowstone last weekend. The beauty continues to astound me.

10/23/2020

Pika

08/06/2020

The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.
Peter Matthiessen

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Yellowstone National Park was once called Roche Juane by early French trappers. This magical, mystical place draws me to visit with a inexplicable force. I created this page to share facts, photos, experiences, and history of the place that grounds my soul.