Entry #43 – Dusty – Sustainability through suffering
One day in 1998 my friend Merrill Cutler called me and announced that he had found the horse I’d been looking for. My old saddle horse Joe had died of old age the year before [...]
Entry #42 – Touching the past / the reality of the future
Driving my team down a quiet country road gives me a certain peace Every now and then I hitch up a team of horses to a wagon or buggy and drive them [...]
Entry #41 – Sustainable energy – Not a new thought
Even though Nancy and I lived for the first fourteen years of our married life without being hooked up to a conventional electric grid, we were by no means free of a monthly [...]
Entry #40 – Stacking Dutch Ovens
For those of us who are married and feel compelled to live more sustainable lifestyles, we know that having common vision with our spouse is essential if we are going to experience [...]
Entry #39 – Revelation from a lone Bumble Bee
One lone Bumble Bee February arrived today without a trace of warmth or sunshine. In faith we have ordered fruit trees to be delivered sometime in March knowing that the ground will [...]
Entry #38 – Leave only footprints / Take only pictures
My dad crosses a creek in the Sierra Nevada Mountains Packing in the Sawtooth Wilderness of Idaho Years ago as a young man I saw a sign at a trailhead that led into the [...]
