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You can’t go home again

Everything changes … nothing changes.  I’m back on my bicycle — the same one that almost a year ago carried me from Portland to Utah — but this time doing a sort of tour of my quasi-native turf in British Columbia.  Long with my friends Josh and Mark, we’ll make a two-day trip up the east coast of Vancouver Island between Victoria and Nanaimo, and then after a

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On getting lost

I once heard about a botanist in Hawaii with a knack for finding new species by getting lost in the jungle, by going beyond what he knew and how he knew, by letting experience be larger than his knowledge, by choosing reality rather than the plan.

– Rebecca Solnit