During the sweet, short summers of college, I worked at a backpacking camp just north of Yellowstone National Park. My third summer on staff was my second season serving as camp cook. I loved the job, but still welcomed the one week per summer we support staff were granted out on the trail. The secretaryContinueContinue reading “You Said There Wouldn’t Be Bears by Camille Griep”
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Beetled by Kim Steutermann Rogers
This was after Beatlemania, after John Lennon penned Imagine, after he was shot dead outside his Greenwich Village apartment building, after you and I met on Spring Break in Florida. This was after Michael Keaton captured our hearts in Beetlejuice. After the iconic VW Bug made its debut but we were too young to driveContinueContinue reading “Beetled by Kim Steutermann Rogers”
Encounters by Diane Payne
I run into an old lover I haven’t seen in thirty years, and after a bit of mundane chit chat, he asks if I can still predict the future. He doesn’t laugh. I don’t laugh. If I could have predicted that I would have run into him, I would have gone a different direction. HeContinueContinue reading “Encounters by Diane Payne”
I am thinking about violence by Christy Tending
Once, in a yoga workshop, a teacher was discussing the philosophical underpinnings of violence and non-violence and stoicism—opining about the wisdom of the text, written down by a man who had lived all his life in an ashram, taught by someone who had also lived his whole life in an ashram. She had a warmthContinueContinue reading “I am thinking about violence by Christy Tending”
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