Category: Journey to YOUR HeartLand

May 15, 2018

Wild Wind Journey Day is open for your participation! We’ll meet Barbara on Sunday afternoon, June 10 for live singing of her songs woven into my Walk for a Singing Heart, plus live guidance in my Sensory and NonSensory Awakening walks. This includes my nourishing Color Immersion play. It’s a delightful and surprisingly transformative experience that you can do with Barbara and I in person!

Read more about it here!

https://forgivenesswalks.com/wild-wind-journey-day/

Can’t come in person this time? I’ll offer a virtual walk too, including painting supplies sent to your home if you register by June 3. read more

Just Keep Walking. March 14, 2012 together with Walking Boosts Brainpower

Umbrella: A Room with a View May 9, 2012
(Love your Gear)

Sense and Nonsense June 6, 2012
synopsis of workshop for Trail Dames

What’s YOUR Wilderness? August 30, 2012
needs pictures reloaded!

Imaging a Grand Adventure. August 20, 2012

Fulfilling the Five Essentails August 20, 2012
With Mary on Springer Mtn

Using the Tools is Like Unclogging a Toilet August 17, 2012
humorous

Sense and Nonsense: Useful Words August 11, 2012

Self Hatred meets Self Love September 28, 2012

Clouds and Form September 5, 2012
Imaging a dream.

(Passionate Doubt needs editing)

My Job is to MAKE Peace Oct 22, 2012  revised 10/15/19

Maine Ideas: Fine Without My Brain (Gear)
August 26, 2015

Maine Ideas: Town Stop August 19, 2015

Maine Ideas: Focus on Rocks and Maine Ideas: Stick in the Mud
August, 2015

Maine Ideas: Beginning August 6, 2015 https://forgivenesswalks.com/maine-ideas-beginning/
what it’s like to start a journey

New Views in New Hampshire: Backpacker’s Wardrobe September 12, 2015

What’s Your Story? November 11, 2015

Heartsinging Pace March 14, 2016

What She Said April 27, 2016
intro to five essentials

Heart April 23, 2016

Nine Year Avocado June 30, 2016
Attract Trail Angel NEtwork

Rocks Reprise June 28, 2016

Continue. May 26, 2016

Preparing for a Long Walk & thruhiker Celebrity July, 2019

Divorciversary April 9, 2018

pct Anniversary May 2018

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May 2, 2018

This week marks the ten-year anniversary of the launch of my Pacific Crest Trail walk. If you’re not familiar with that trail, it’s one of the eleven National Scenic trails, 2,650 miles long, winding northward from the border of Mexico to the border of Canada. In 2007, I focused my attention on completing the Appalachian Trail, viewing its completion as a way to get the project out of my system to clear my mind for my next career. I had not even heard of the PCT until I spent a night at the Kincocora Hostel, in Tennessee just shy of 1800 miles into my walk from Maine on the Appalachian Trail. Even paging through the Yogi’s Guide to the PCT didn’t entice me. read more

April 25, 2018

“Do what you love, the money will follow.” Decades ago, I read this. I read Marsha Sinetar’s book by that name and thought, “Sure, for me it would be do what I love and the money will follow waaay behind, far far behind. Do what I love and the money will follow my own investments in doing what I love.”

Well, I’m now wrapping up my fourth season of doing what I love at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park with money in the bank and in my retirement fund. And, if I also count the seven seasons I worked as a Ridgerunner on the Appalachian Trail, that would add up to eleven seasons earning money doing what I love. It can happen – even to a doubter like me! read more

April 10, 2018

Yesterday’s fifth anniversay of my divorce invited me to consider how I am embracing my new relationship. I thought, “Why not invent something new rather than continue pitying myself for settling for a similarly shallow relationship?”

Well, it turns out that my partner took care of that. He bought a 4×4 Chevy Tahoe! “Now, we can drive deeper into the desert,” he celebrated. “Not to just drive, but to position ourselves for walking in more remote places.” read more

April 9, 2018

In the best spirit of Radical Forgiveness which gave me the tools to be able to stand in gratitude and honor for this day, I acknowledge with openness to a Spiritual purpose, that today marks the fifth anniversary of my divorce. I acknowledge, love, accept, and honor myself and my ex for courageously stepping through this gateway – away from feelings, because of beliefs, toward relationships,into an unknown neither of us anticipated when we said, “I do”.

Yet, divorce has given me experiences I value in their rawness and power. Divorce links me with others with whom I now have a bond of the heart. To all of us, blessings on the journey! read more

Simon turns 29 on April 3rd!

Dear Simon,

I love studying the collage of photos I put together for your 18th birthday. I know there have been photos since then, but these are easily accessible and reflect the time that I was with you a whole lot more than I have been in the last 11 years!  Here’s a sampling of one corner of it.  I celebrate your life and my gratitude for being your mom.  What I love about you Simon:

• Your quiet attentiveness to details
• Your inner musical rhythm
• Your reliability
• Your engineering skills shared with the world
• Your sober lifestyle
• Your gentle spirit and generosity

I celebrate YOU!

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By4dX48YOv5GLUVnV2J3d0k1UDg read more

March 22, 2018

My mind races with all we have to talk about while a sullen silence bulges the walls of our trailer. Surely his body language is saying, “I feel separate from you, and I most certainly am not going to talk about it.” And that , in my opinion, is exactly what there is to talk about! Listening without commenting or analyzing or fixing. Choosing techniques to navigate our communication blockades, our fears of sharung deeply, honestly, objectively as two people relating.

March 8, 2018

For Wild Wind Journey Day, on June 10th in Atlanta, Barbara’s mission is to learn the alluring drum rhythm of her song Wild Wind and have a chime that rings at just the right time in Perfect Love. I want to make sure that she feels the part as my Forgiveness Walks muse, contributing the five transformative songs of Walk for a Singing Heart which will guide us through our afternoon’s exploration into courage. In Wild Wind Journey Day, Barbara and I will entice you to invoke something fulfilling that you’re dreaming of doing. Through Nature, color, song, and supportive emotional clearing, we will entice you to step boldly into your Wild Wind. read more

March 7, 2018

Designing this summer’s journey has been a roller coaster ride! Several itineraries have taken the stage, been proposed, envisioned, and evaluated. I sadly let go of my Ridgerunning job for this summer, replacing it with a progression of family visits and long distance walking. Now, yet another version calls! It evokes my allegiance to family to take center stage, letting other passions wait in the wings for another season.

My mom needs assistance!

So, I’m now looking at spending my summer with her in Ohio! read more