“There’s no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall and listening to its music,” wrote nature photographer Roland Kemler. I couldn’t agree more. In my recent update to 1001 Fun Things To Do in Retirement, I added 64 fun walks and day hikes. I didn’t do it on purpose, but 13 of […]
“If there’s heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached to it” wrote singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Beach goers like Buffet are profusive in their praise. “There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away,” wrote poet Sarah Kay. A […]
“The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself,” wrote John Wesley Powell, the Army Major who led the first American exploration of the canyon in 1869. If you’ve stood at its rim, you know what he meant. My word is “mesmerized,” a term attributed to […]
Walk at Night “I have been one acquainted with the night,” wrote Robert Frost. I want to say, “Me too, Mr. Frost, but not acquainted as much as I would like.” I once saw the night sky on a regular basis—when I was a Boy Scout on campouts, when I lived on a ranch in […]