with the return of the school year
comes the return of our outdoor adventure days.
—
“we could have never loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
-george eliot
Sep30
Tag Archives: exploring
Dec6
up for a stroll?
The longest road in the world to walk is from Cape Town (South Africa) to Magadan (Russia).
No need for planes or boats, there are bridges.
It’s 22,387 km and it takes 4,492 hours to run it.
It would be 187 days walking non-stop, or 561 days walking 8 hours a day.
The route passes through 17 countries, six time zones and all seasons of the year.
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“all walking is discovery, on foot we take the time to see things whole.”
*-hal borland
*Harold “Hal” Glen Borland was an American author, journalist and naturalist. In addition to writing many non-fiction and fiction books about the outdoors, he was a staff writer and editorialist for The New Yorker.
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credits: united humanists
Jan19
light and shadows.
kinders write by candlelight
find their own shadows
make a tiger on the ceiling.
—
“find beauty not only in the thing itself
but in the pattern of the shadows,
the light and dark which that thing provides.”
-junichiro tanizaki
Aug28
forts.
bird hills park
dolph park
dhu varen park
eberwhite woods park
—
loving all the forts, both big and small that i’ve discovered as i continue my journey through the ann arbor parks. forts are very sacred places. lots of heart and hard work go into the making of them – special spaces to meet and hang out with your gang.
(i’m about half way through the parks now -through the letter ‘i’)
– 80 down and 80-ish to go! –
onward.
—
“i have a lot of growing up to do. i realized that the other day inside my fort. “
-zach galifianakis
Jul3
parks.
as i’ve been walking and exploring
the parks and outdoor recreation areas around town
i realize how many i have yet to visit
so i’ve decided to walk in each of the parks
in ann arbor
all 159+ of them
to see what is unique about each
with more than
2,000 acres of parkland
50,000 trees
a river, dams, falls, hills, ponds, gardens,
woods, meadows, prairies, and rec areas
found in spaces ranging from
tiny neighborhood green spots to wide open expanses
i see an adventure ahead
with no planned deadline or timeline
so i began the list alphabetically yesterday
and have walked 2 of them so far
only 157+ to go.
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“parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.”
-thomas hoving
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credits: ann arbor parks and recreation
Sep26
live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. ― ralph waldo emerson
we went outside
on a class hike
touched stuff
picked up things
fell down
rolled
ran
played in the water
saw some pretty little stuff
and saw some big and beautiful stuff
and tried to figure out
how to get way up there
then we found this
and
think it was a message
left for us
and decided it was true
and our adventure
was even better.
—-
land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life,
the outside, the unknown.
– stephen gardiner
Sep4
science is magic that works. – kurt vonnegut
j and b amidst the magic at the hands-on museum
Apr6
left behind.
i went with mg
to explore
the old greenhouse
long
untouched
and
there
we discovered
all kinds
of interesting artifacts
from past eras
when
suddenly
he
warned me
not to
turn around
and
i imagined
every kind
of
horrible
gruesome
thing
lying there
but
i had to look
couldn’t
help myself
and
when
i turned
i saw
this
hideous
terrifying
clown puzzle
that had been
left behind
and
and i’d
venture to say
it was
abandoned
for a good reason
and
never missed
by anyone.
—-
courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear,
not absence of fear.
– – mark twain
I didn't have my glasses on.... 