I heard there was a big storm coming and drove my Jeep 250 miles to the Great Sand Dunes National Park in December 2015. The drive was a bear, US285 was mostly unploughed. When I reached the park early in the morning, I had the Sand Dunes to myself for almost 2 hours. Windchill was…
May is national photography month and I will try to post a couple of photographs every day for the next few weeks.
Published 1908. Under 1 hour to read. It has been said that time is money. That proverb understates the case. Time is a great deal more than money. If you have time you can obtain money— usually. Talk about an ideal democracy! In the realm of time there is no aristocracy of wealth, and no…
Interesting short book about career/life. Very similar concepts to Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The author has a very simple, “back of paper napkin” concept of a 2×2 grid of ability and enjoyment. He argues that the highest career/life satisfaction comes in Q2 and one should try to stay in that quadrant as long as possible….
I come back to this book every few years and find a new, refreshing message within it each time. It is a book about following one’s dreams, seeking them outside one’s self and ultimately finding them within. The world was huge and inexhaustible; he had only to allow his sheep to set the route for…
Just got back from a 10 day trip to Peru. What a diverse country – in terms of landscape, ecology, food… Here are some interesting facts about Peru followed by some photos. Twice the size of Texas Birthplace of potatoes. Still has the best potatoes in the world. 3800 different varieties. Value of annual world…