Tag: Appreciation

  • A Necessary Corrective

    A Necessary Corrective

    It’s Contagious… Imagine yourself walking down a wooded path. You are contentedly listening to a podcast, fully immersed in your own little world, and from a distance, you notice an individual who is staring up into the trees. They are perfectly still, focused and appear determined in their level of attention. Suddenly, you notice your…

  • Seeing Red

    Seeing Red

    I am heartbroken…. I have called Minnesota “home” my entire life. And there is something remarkably strange about knowing your life is occurring in a place and time that will one day be depicted within history books. Some days I wake up to a silence that holds all the promise and possibility of normalcy, and…

  • Rapt

    Rapt

    My encounters with eagles have historically been…well, complicated. Seeing one has always felt magical. But my earlier encounters often came with baggage that made them equally distressing. I grew up at a time when bald eagles were on the endangered species list. To see one was a rare experience. And it was precisely this fact…