Camping and the Outdoors

i train for cycling pretty much every day. its difficult. i motivate myself by sometimes not motivating myself at all - just going training because its what i’m supposed to do. it’s “filling the time up”.
i’m finding the most amazing beauty in my bike riding - the feel of the bike frame, a very stiff […]

Woke from weird dreams, involving hiking, huge great buttresses of mountain and rock, giant-sized structures and bridges (like being inside a manic miner game), strange flats full of young women and their friends and boyfriends (!), then an action movie with me as a super assassin, jason bourne or somesuch, defending a small white lace-filled […]

I’m struggling along here at work, remembering my being out and about, remembering places and times I loved, and the noise of my bicycle tyre comes to mind. Hmmm. So, noises I love.
The crunch of my shoe on a path high up on a mountainside, with the wind blowing and green slopes dropping away to […]

have you ever thought about giving directions to someone over the phone who has almost no language reference with you? Like right and left?
Here’s an interesting experiment - searching on the internet using interesting words - the list is to follow - and enjoy the incongruity of the result. I wonder what term I should […]

ok, so it sounds quite depressed and moany. yes, it sounds down. wait for it, wait for it…. when life happens, the changes are always there. Nothing changing is just another word for life. How can nothing have changed?
If I go just into my thoughts, there are changes. I feel oddly out of time this […]

one of the beautiful things missing from walking, camping and my outdoors experiences is the presence of a beloved pet.
one of my more memorable trips out into the wild was a geophysical survey trip. My father and a colleague were off into the Barbeton mountains to take core samples from the rock there.
My dad and […]

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one of my favourite books is ursula k. le guin’s “the word for world is forest”. in it the human explorers encounter forest-dwelling humanoids, and there is the standard left- and right-wing human response, as shown in the last disney tarzan animated movie - the clayton-jane conflict. in “forest” the fear and suppressive urges […]

The lifestyle of a consumer is what is driving economies and placing a vicious circle onto our habits.
We need money to survive - i.e. to purchase food and to purchase living space. To get the money, we all are faced with work required to get paid the money. Where does the work […]

This morning, while assisting at a nerve-wracking event for someone, I noticed a dilapidated weaver-bird’s nest. It recalled for me the little things that can contribute to us finding a beautiful hidden thread of things.
Once, while out hiking with my father and sister, my sister and I encountered a small trickle of a tiny stream. […]