Going Alone

July 11th, 2020 was the last day our daughter lived at home with Yumiko and me. Emily has been with us a long time, since November 25th,...

Waking up early is a very good use of time; for it reminds us soon that we are still alive and provides an opportunity to bring in a full...

I believe that Yumiko and I are as prepared for our new life together as we might hope to be. With our daughter leaving us this coming...

Yumiko and I watched a movie last night called Ad Aster, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We enjoyed the film, which is a science...

Next week, our daughter Emily will leave us. As a family, on Saturday, July 11th, we will spend a day moving her few things to an...

I'd left Siberia ghost town as the sun went down, departing for a four-hour motorcycle ride into the desert night; with hot wind at my...

The Path of Wildness is easy to find... It is the course of a stream, and a beast's track through the woods; leaves blown in the wind,...

The "Desert Fathers" once famously haunted the deserts east of Egypt, where they pursued solitude and clarity while seeking oneness and a...

While at Siberia this past weekend I discovered I'd had a visitor. Someone had actually come, and had made their way from the ghost town...

My anxiety rises as I walk alone though the dark desert more than a mile from Siberia and on my way into the Deep Water Wilderness....

I might go out Into life, To see what is there, And then return in peace. Or, I might stay, Seeking peace; Wondering always... What there...

A long walk alone into the dark desert with no companion, no guide, no certainty and no companions. My name is Kurt Bell. You can learn...

Looking back on the route so far, through the tangled weeds and forgotten and neglected spaces; I’ll remember fondly that I’d walked...

I got the news on Sunday, February 23rd, 2020 that Mike Hughes had died. "Mad Mike" was killed while piloting his latest home-made rocket...

Sometimes the best benefit of change is what we lose rather than what we gain.

November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened...

October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk...

October 20, 2019 Dear Eric, I've an opportunity to exercise what is perhaps my earliest principle - The Path of Wildness: The Path of...

October 15, 2019 Dear Yumiko, Without costumes, and two weeks too soon, we haunted together yesterday the scene and setting of one of our...

October 14, 2019 Dear Eric, What did you wonder over as you walked quietly to your death? I like to imagine you thought of the egg-laying...