As Ansel Adams once said in a letter written from an adventure into the heart of the wilderness that “All was nought but nirvana.” The wilderness has an uncanny way of permeating every part of ones being by uncovering the layers of civilization’s residues that plaque the daily routines of the human experience.
Maybe it is [...]
Back in Mrs. Bissell’s AP English class, I met and fell deeply in love with the transcendentalists – Thoreau, Emerson, Longfellow & Co. In all the eras and genres of the written word, I was finally reading my people, and it was as if they were speaking to the deepest fibers of my being.
I clung [...]





