Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe.

Hikes in the Gorge with my dad are one of my earliest and most vibrant memories.  I think spending time in nature, virtually untouched by man, I have always been in awe.  I went through my first backpacking experience when I was 17 in the central Oregon desert.  It was 2007 and I didn't bring a camera.  But I spent eight weeks outside, learned how to build a bow drill set, set up shelter, and live in the wilderness.  Then in 2010 I went on another three month backpacking trip.  I brought a camera, but it broke the second day. I climbed mountains in Colorado, canyoneered in Utah, rock climbed in Joshua Tree, and climbed a 19,000ft mountain in Ecuador.  I was going to work for Outward Bound.  But then my accident happened.  And I went through two years of recovery and therapy.  And then I married my soul mate.  And three months later we were pregnant. It's wild how life can change in an instant.  Our experiences a...

As my daughter approaches two years of solid experience Earthside, my entire being is overcome with gratitude for her precious, original soul.  Every day, as a stay-at-home mom, I am observing her experience - seeing, hearing, feeling, knowing, hating and loving life for the first time.  Two year olds say some pretty strange and amazing things.  And I am forever indebted to the universe/God for allowing me to participate in this beautiful human being’s life as she tells me what the world looks like, seen for the first time, from a point of view that has never existed before! And its wild that we all had our own original perspectives once, two.  We may not remember because it’s always difficult to remember what we don’t have words for.  But we were all two years old once.  And we were all experiencing the world in such an original way that no one around you could give the words for it.  And if you found the words for it, usually no one co...