Going Alone

Yumiko and I decided to downsize after Emily left to begin life on her own. Our own move began just two days after Emily left our home on...

Who knew becoming empty-nesters was so painful? Surely, neither Yumiko or I did. And who knew how fast the sense of absence and loss...

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,...

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...

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

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...

Several miles into the desert at night I've found the remnants and memory of a long past desert mining adventure. What ever did this man hav

I saw this young man alone in the desert some miles outside Palm Springs, California. He'd made a life for himself on his own terms -...

Every time I see a twenty-something at my place of employment I want to ask them sincerely, "why the hell are you here??" The decade of...

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...

I previously imagined that the risk of avoiding risk was shallow on the domestic side, and deep on the personal side; that those who...

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

November 4, 2019 Dear Eric, I have noticed a new trend in my thinking and writing... I've been coming upon the theme of fire often. Not...

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 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Though you lived few years, I think you lived many days. As you were around much during the time when you...

October 21, 2019 Dear Eric, The old adage of "better to burn out than to fade away" comes to mind when I think of your short life. You...

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