Last weekend I had the chance to take a 20 hour course in Wilderness First Aid and CPR through offered by the Wilderness Medicine Institute (WMI) of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). If that sentence of acronyms is any indication to you, I can tell you the weekend was long, intense, hands-on, and an […]
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I’ve talked about tolerations before those little and big things we just put up with that sap our energy, often without us even knowing it. I was reminded of this very thing recently as we kept procrastinating about cleaning out our refrigerator. Not just throwing things out but truly taking every last piece of food
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This week I thought about this question quite a bit. As a lover of nature and especially animals, I was struck with a conflict. As I was mowing the lawn on Monday I startled a sick and injured robin. It hobbled toward a tree and just sat there. I watched this poor thing sit there
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Today I was catching up on some blog reading & happened to see this post. I don’t tend to take the time to watch a lot of video online. After all the vast amount to choose from is immense. Yet this one caught my eye and my heart. It is a video (Part 2 of
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A few weeks ago during the May Full Moon, our group gathered for monthly meditation with the theme of the flower moon on our mind. The idea being that it is spring, a time of new birth, a time to till the soil, nurture what we plant, and watch it grow. As part of making
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