“I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me.” — Anaïs Nin
Tag: nature
2022 Year in Review
The past year brought no shortage of challenges, but it turned into an incredible part of my journey. What gives me the most joy is the sheer number of people I helped to catch the Northern Lights for the first time!
Chasing the Aurora: A Blog for Newcomers
In many parts of the world, night falls and all one has to do is look up to witness the magnificence that expands out into the atmosphere and beyond the edges of our world. In other parts, it’s not so easy.
Pure Michigan
One of my goals in life is to visit as many state parks and national parks as I can. After setting out to travel more in Michigan, I decided to jot down which state parks I’ve visited and try to see them all!
Unfiltered: No. 2
I wasn’t born yesterday. And I’m learning to recognize the wounds that make a woman or a man less than whole.
Unfiltered: No. 1
An eternal optimist, I try to make the best of things. But every pandemic summer has its days.
Now Unfiltered
The gloves came off. I removed the mask. And I bared myself to the hemlock trees. Unfiltered.
“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
— John Muir
The snowflake dissolves
In 2016, I self-published a poetry collection illustrated with my photography. Entitled “Hope in the Hoarfrost,” the chapbook includes this poem.
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson My late brothers would have turned 20 on February 19, 2018, but it’s my hope to carry their light into the future. Inspired by the twins, I wrote my first…
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