Me: “Where is your favorite place to ‘just be’?” Emily: “Does it have to be specific?” Me: “No.” Emily: “Hmmmm… the beach. On the beach.” Me: “What do you feel when you stand at the shoreline of the ocean?” Emily: (Looks at her phone.) “I have to find it. Equanimity. It means mental calmness and…
Month: July 2018
Groundhog Day – Kaela
Have you seen the movie “Groundhog Day”? Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, 1993. The day that just keeps repeating, repeating, repeating. Bill Murray’s character is supposed to evolve and change over time, finally coming to grips with bettering other people’s lives and learning to truly love. Well, apparently Someone had seen “Groundhog Day” and decided to…
Black Butte’ie’ – Misty
I was dying. Of this I was completely convinced. Kaela Anne had persuaded us that this hike was one for the books and was up there at the top of her list of favorite hikes. She had done it. She had done it on an empty stomach and hadn’t even broken a sweat. She had…
The Church of Dirt – Morgan
Okay guys, we’re about to get real. Buckle up, things are gonna be personal. I’ve had anxiety and depression for around half my life now. Finding help for these things was always a struggle. It seems like many people wanted to brush it off as something I would grow out of or something that would…
A Love Affair – Kaela
I was in first grade when I fell in love with the outdoors. I vividly remember wandering down trails of the McDonald-Dunn Forest outside my hometown wet and cold with all my first grade classmates. Naturally it was raining– it is Oregon after all. But I remember the glistening ferns and the loamy smell of…
I’m Moving to Oregon – Misty
I was 24 years old when I decided to leave the only home I’d known, traveling clear across the country to my own parts unknown, and move to the Pacific Northwest. Literally. I had never traveled any farther west than New Mexico. My husband had, as a child, bounced back and forth between Texas and…
Dirt Therapy 