by grayisgreen | Feb 24, 2015 | Elder Wisdom, Pathways to Gratitude, Sustainable Living
What does it mean—“to make sense of life”? It simply means fitting the elements into what I consider to be a coherent narrative… The story of my real life is not a neatly crafted story, not an aesthetically unified, coherent novel or drama; it’s something of a...
by grayisgreen | Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Margaret A. sent this story: It was the summer of 1996 when I decided to go white water rafting in the Grand Canyon, at the age of 44. I knew it was the thing to do the moment a line from the movie Grand Canyon popped into my mind: talking to Kevin Klein, Danny...
by grayisgreen | Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
James B. shared this image: On Labor Day weekend (2001) in Colorado, my daughter and I drove up to the summit of Mt. Evans. At over 14,000 feet the summit is well above the tree line so there are only low growth plants covering the mountainside. Our timing was...
by grayisgreen | Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Terry H. shared this story: We lived in Anchorage when I was a 10 year-old boy while my dad was stationed at Elmendorf AFB. That winter Anchorage got 132 inches of snow. People were digging tunnels from their front door to the street. After one snowstorm when the...
by grayisgreen | Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Laine H. tells this story: When I was a kid of about 12 or 13, my family and I lived in rural north Alabama. We had about 3 acres surrounded by fields and second growth scrub forest—great for us boys to run around exploring in. I had lobbied for a rifle to learn to...
