This story is right up my alley of crazy, coincidental, meant-to-be-moments. Too many things colliding. Too many “signs.”  You all know I love signs. You all know I do not believe in random encounters. So here’s the scene. The [...]

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”      Wendell Berry We’d like to believe it isn’t [...]

  It has been over a month since I have written anything here. Unprecedented for me and I’m not here to explain or make excuses. Sometimes life takes over so thoroughly that one needs to check out, step back and let things settle. I [...]

If you read this blog, if you receive our calendar, if you ever look at our website – you know Ken Carl. You may not realize it, but you do. He created our poster child in this now-iconic image: He is responsible for many of our calendars [...]

I spent the last three weeks living out of bags. I took this photo on the 2nd day of my trip because it amused me and because I was traveling very light that particular day and feeling just a bit smug. But by the end of the trip, when I had [...]