As a ‘setting’ describes that which will hold a precious stone or gem, forests are settings which hold precious memories of life, and love.
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The fish were calling. He would go. He just knew it. He would answer. This was going to be his day.
I’m sure I saw tears forming in my brother’s eyes this morning when he shared an excerpt from a letter he’d received.
If you are in love still, if you have her hand to hold still, then pursue her. Keep going and you’ll see.
She knew I belonged out there, that I was so happy out there, and that love for me was so evident in her smile as I rowed away.
I no longer have promises to keep, nor miles to go before I sleep.
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America the Beautiful’s circulatory system is her trails that connect miles of lakes, rivers, and valleys. There my own heart heals.
There is such incredible beauty when the forest weeps.
When a 'wrong' turn becomes very much the right turn.
In one sense – I admit it - I go to the mountains, the forests, the rivers, the coastline, to hide.
Kindness, which flows from the heart, is everyone’s lifeline.
I will pass through the valley so much like life – enchanting, familiar, comforting to return to where precious memories were made.
Sorrow departs, reluctantly, unwelcome visitor it is, and the joy of having loved remains, a permanent resident, a treasure that finds us.
I find her, sweet-to-be-with reminders of her, everywhere.
There’ll be rivers to cross and mountains to climb. And I won’t be there. But you won’t go alone. You’ll make it.
Though now I meander about mountain meadows without her hand in my own, still there is joy.
I am irresistibly drawn, almost as if I had no choice in the matter, to be where beauty abounds.
As in the mountains, so in life, walking carefully, every step one of integrity, desirous always the path be trod with honesty, matters.
How not to miss beauty all around you.
‘You have no idea,’ I had thought of saying, ‘how special this day is.’ Nor did I know how incredibly special it would be.
New trails, listening to the river, seeing beauty, this is to live. And apparently, it is to die.
I think she is why I walk the forest trails, remembering, needing to go wading in the happy bubbling brook meandering nearby.
The river - of popular opinion, political rhetoric, and cultural shifts - will just have to go around me. I'm not moving.
Kindness is "the greatest ornament of human nature.”
There are no flowery expressions depicting the one whose daughter I married. But how that man mattered to me!
There’s a time to go slow, perhaps to more enjoy the journey, approach the mountain reverently.
The path was grueling. But every now and then, looking back on the way I had come, there was the mountain, framed in the window of trees.
A friend of mine, when she heard the story that follows, said she would have liked my wife - my Dutch, frugal, sweetly stubborn wife.
“A man’s greatest treasure….” How would you finish that proverb?
When you love someone and have lost that someone it is said there are two measurements of time.
Lessons learned on the trail about life, and love, and loss.
Sustained means to 'carry on.' What enables you to carry on? By way of answer, here’s what I discovered.
What is required of anyone before whom looms any mountain, and who would then go and take it.
Even when there seems little hope we will ever find it again, choose to live life.
“That night, July 4, 1979, when the rest of the country far below me was setting off fireworks and celebrating, I sat alone...."
Oh, to live a dog’s life, drama-free and, like Dharma the dog, experience the behaviors that sustain life.
A family that rows together is a family that stays together.
How I needed this word for today: husbandeth. But when I really needed it was yesterday.