Welcome to another edition of Rising Tide, a digest of things worth sharing! Enjoy this month’s list of books, blog posts, movies, music, and more! To watch 1. How many more books will you read in your lifetime? As an avid reader, this feels like a scary question. (Don’t blink, or you’ll miss the few […]
Month: October 2021
Thoughts from the Trail: North Cascades
Welcome to Thoughts From the Trail, a list of random thoughts, ideas, questions, photos, music, and other information related to my trail adventures, hiking, walking, biking, or other! North Cascades The North Cascades are a vast landscape of mountains and valleys, forests and rivers. The preserved lands share governance by a variety of federal and […]
Malong’s Meditation
I had just entered the North Cascades. Newhalem, Washington is the first little town I came to as I enter the park from the west along SR-20, the North Cascades Scenic Highway. I decided to start my weekend in the park by hiking the Trail of the Cedars, a short and intimate little trail with […]
A Picnic Table, The Sun, and Me
I set out to write a good story. I had just finished reading A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller. It’s a book about how to write a good story. “Story” and “Life” are used interchangeably throughout the book, both literally and metaphorically. So it also happens to be about how to […]