Symbolic of a glorious and prosperous past, Venice also is symbolic of the world we’re poised on the brink of – maybe it could be called the Engineero-zoic Era? ______________________________________________________________________________ Part One: The road to insight is paved with water. … Read More ›
Me and my sparrow Taking the high road Where ever we go, everyone knows, It’s me and my sparrow (*) _________________________________________________________________________________ (*) With deference to the late great Harry Nilsson, and his song “Me and My Arrow” The boat drops us… Read More ›
They say that nature talks, but humans rarely listen. After a day of trekking on Argentina’s Perito Moreno Glacier, in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, in southern Patagonia, I sat down on a boulder on the land to the side of… Read More ›
In a world reeling from the bad news of one environmental disaster and natural resource pillage after another, Argentina’s Esteros del Ibera Wetlands National Park stands out as a heartening example of the resiliency of ecological communities. It’s a story… Read More ›
It’s become part of our culture to greet the arrival of a new year by reflecting on what’s going on in our lives. If we’re in the right frame of mind – highly questionable given the insanity of what passes… Read More ›
“The Volcano will give you about 15 seconds, no more.” That’s how long the Park Ranger gave us to stand on the exposed rim of Nicaraugua’s Volcano Masaya to peak into the nighttime darkness at the glowing furnace in the… Read More ›
Standing buck-naked in the Rio Grande River, a river-bend upstream of our overnight camp at Lower Falls in the Lower Canyons section of the river between Texas and Mexico, I braced against the current and started wringing the Dr. Bronners… Read More ›
We watched the vintage 1950 Otter float plane lift off the water and loop over us, leaving us with our three canoes and a rainbow assortment of dry bags and paddles tossed ashore in a nondescript shrub and spruce thicket. … Read More ›
If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably at least a bit like me, and you take slightly more pleasure in finding the path less traveled. In fact, when you stumble onto those gem places where you fool yourself into feeling… Read More ›
by Hillary S. Webb, PhD The first time I heard the term yanantin was back in 2000, when I accompanied a group of people to Peru to learn about the indigenous spiritual philosophies as they exist this region of the… Read More ›
