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Everything written here since 2023, drawn as a range. Each ridge is a year and each peak is one piece, one point per sentence: the longer the sentence, the higher the point. The nearest ridge is this year.

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  • A green alpine basin between two dark peaks, snowfields on the slopes and white clouds overhead
  • A long ridge of grey peaks above a green valley and a slope of willows and scattered rock
  • Evening light turning a ridgeline gold while the valley below falls into shadow
  • Last light on a rock rim above a meadow, with a small waterfall spilling over slabs
  • A pale rock crest above wide green valleys, clouds across the sky
  • A jagged dark ridge above a small green lake, a trail crossing the tundra in the foreground
  • Folded ridges and a deep valley under scattered white clouds
  • A grassy bench and a trail leading toward a blocky summit under big clouds
  • Jagged dark peaks beyond a high basin, heavy white clouds overhead
  • Fresh snow on a high bench, red and white mountains beyond under a cloud bank
  • An autumn valley of dark conifers and gold slopes, snowy peaks on the horizon
  • Red rock cliffs and a forested canyon in hazy afternoon light, contrails across the sky
  • A range dusted with early snow under a deep blue sky, seen from a rocky summit
  • Dry golden grass below a green slope and two rocky summits
  • A broad green valley in late light below a single rounded peak, a small lake in the distance
  • The same valley framed between two weathered rock outcrops
  • A long blue lake in a wide valley, seen from high above
  • Wind-rippled lake water below brown hills
  • Three riders on horseback crossing a wide grassy plain
  • A long lake below a big mountain, bleached dead trees in the foreground
  • A deep blue lake winding between green hills below a massive peak
  • A forested valley running up to a crest of spiky rock towers
  • A grey granite outcrop above a lake, clouds billowing over the range
  • Cloud swirling around high peaks above a dry plateau of low beech trees
  • A glacier pouring between dark peaks under a blue sky
  • Blue lakes in a wide valley under scattered clouds, mountains folding away behind
  • Snowy granite spires rising behind a rocky plateau
  • A skyline of granite spires and a glacier on the horizon, wind-bent trees in the foreground
  • A steep mountain face streaked with snow under a long band of cloud
  • Eroded grey slopes and green forest below a flat-topped peak
  • Conifers framing green ridges and a wide valley
  • Tall spruce in front of a grey mountain under billowing clouds
  • A broad forested valley under a great sweep of cloud
  • A long view over layered ridges from a stony summit
  • Evening sun slanting into a deep canyon with a small town on its floor
  • Sunset colour over a canyon, dark ridges and fir trees in silhouette
  • A green meadow with small spruce and a pond, dark peaks behind
  • A calm fjord below a long dark ridge, thin high clouds above
  • Water shining below dark mountains, a single spruce in silhouette
  • Weathered granite boulders against a deep blue sky
  • An orange sunset over layered mountain ridges and a rocky slope
  • A sharp rock summit, a snowfield, and a range beyond
  • Frosted trees on a summit, sun rays over a distant rounded peak
  • Autumn mountains in morning light, spruce in front
  • The same autumn range under long streaks of cloud
  • A snowy summit with rime-covered cairns and a far horizon
  • Rime-ice mounds on a summit in late light
  • Snow-covered rocks on a summit under a textured grey sky
  • A snowy summit looking out across blue ranges
  • A white beach curving below mountain cliffs and a turquoise sea
  • A snow-covered frozen pond below a wooded mountain
  • Dark open water in a snowy pond, hills beyond
  • Snowy summits above a dense spruce forest
  • An orange rock tower against a clear blue sky
  • White wild roses among green leaves
  • Red peonies in full bloom
  • Jagged snowy peaks across a deep forested valley under heavy cloud
  • A sea of cloud filling a valley below snowy peaks
  • Early light over snowfields and jagged peaks, cloud in the valleys
  • A dark rock spire rising from snowy ridges
  • Dawn light behind a snowy range, a glacier in front
  • A dark pinnacle beside a peak, a sea of cloud far below
  • Grey rocks and a snowfield under a pale sky
  • A snow slope leading to dark ridges and a distant peak
  • A snow-streaked peak under blue sky, a green alpine slope in the foreground
  • An orange rose in a garden
  • A red bee balm flower in a garden
  • A pink dahlia in full bloom
  • Rows of pansies and ranunculus growing in a long greenhouse
  • A magenta dahlia among green leaves
  • A pale peach dahlia
  • A milky glacial lake below a snowy mountain wall
  • A gravel path leading up a valley toward a snowy summit
  • White flowers on a green shrub
  • Purple and yellow pansies
  • A granite summit overlooking forest and the sea

2026 4 pieces

A Curious Foundation

Lately, I find myself sitting with the magnificent state of curiosity. Over the last six months, I have had the tremendous pleasure of meeting and sharing conversations with extraordinary, kind, and above all, curious people. The basic framework seems to be expansiveness, possibility, and openness to the world, and a genuine engagement with the conditions that effectively allow experiences to work themselves out. I repeatedly come back to the question and reflection of my own curiosity, and a wish to foster, support, and cultivate this foundation. From time to time, I even feel a worry that this curiosity will vanish, and that I will stumble upon my last question. I don’t want to reach the conclusion, the last question, though I certainly will admit, an “answer” to the great mystery from time to time might not be such a bad thing. Nonetheless, I hope to encourage the expansion of the questions, allowing a significant multiplication of ponderings, about life “out there” and life “within”, as if those were separate and distinct experiences anyway.

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Explorations of the Heart

I begin with awe and wonder, looking within only to find the vast emptiness and infinite expanses. So, where does the heart begin, and where does it end, as though there are any boundaries to speak of? Where does the heart rest in the source of love, potential, and hope? I sit in this expansive silence with no where to go, nothing to do, and no one to be. Just loving and enjoying silence.

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Around We Go.

To, really, be here, now. To fully embrace, accept, understand, and love the present moment, for the all the uncertainty, wonder, and confusion that might exist simultaneously. As the thoughts circulate, habitually, doing their rounds as they always do, familiar, yet evasive and elusive.

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Where Curiosity Takes Us

2025 9 pieces

The path goes on.Perspective & GratitudeObserving and Inquiring.Traversing the Mountains of my Mind.The Rise and Fall of BreathWhat Comes Up, Let it Go.Come Back to the Body, Come Back to the BreathPracticing ease, finding relief, and being in the present moment.Exploring DarknessAll is welcome.Presence and AwarenessListening to the somatic within.Opening to What Life Gives UsBeing and SurrenderingGoing WithinMaking Peace with Resistance and Fear

2024 3 pieces

Breath and MovementTransformation and HealingBreathe and SmileMoving through a life in flowExploring PossibilitiesAnd Waking Up

2023 12 pieces

Moving With EaseAnother Day, Another LifeFinding FlowThe various states of being.Who am I?Around and around in circles.Wilderness MusingsA Closer Look Into The Inner WorldKeep Going Even When It's HardOne Step at a TimeThe Mountains Show The WayFinding my way homeDancing and PlayingThe Power of Embodied MovementThrough the DarknessLessons from pain, uncertainty, and struggleA Wild AdventurePushing the edgesExplorations and DiscoveryInto the forest we go.A DreamMay this life be a wild adventureIt's Time to StartWalk into the forest with courage.