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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: December 2012

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Saturday, December 22, 2012. Where Do We Go From Here? We say we can't imagine and we simply can't. Neither can they. I am sorely disappointed in myself as much as I am this country as a collective whole. Why did it take the mass murder of kindergarteners (and let's not forget the brave staff and teachers) to. Wake our country up to this epidemic? And did it even wake us up and. I believe that if you put one hundred people in a room, you would get one hundred ...

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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: Parental Rejuvenation

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Saturday, August 15, 2015. Rejuvenation: To give new strength or energy to something. Thanks to awesome grandparents who were eager to spend a few days having some farm fun with their grands, Larry and I had that chance and we took it! Taking one for the team is what those kind of friends do, and he was happy to oblige my request for some wilderness therapy. I was excited to complete my last leg of the Bartram Trail! That night we camped in a beautiful hollow ...

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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: May 2015

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Walk or travel through or around a place or area, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way. When I moved to Waynesville in the spring of 1997, I was awestruck. The animal hospital where I took my first job had a window in the operating room, and it became a brief meditative ritual for me to watch the green leaves make their slow climb up the mountainside each day while I waited for the staff to prep my patients for surgery. Time ...

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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: July 2014

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Sunday, July 27, 2014. Finding Me Again on the Foothills Trail. Backpacking in Grand Canyon National Park, 2001. Harder to pull off as the years ticked by. Real life has a way of blocking the path sometimes. Ate mountains of anything we offered them, and resupplied their food. Celine, Brienne and Laurent (the kids) seemed wise beyond their years when we met them, so I can only imagine what they'll be like at the end of their journey (and yes, they're still...

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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: February 2014

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Sunday, February 2, 2014. Four years ago today, Mama crossed over. The grief I usually experience on this anniversary is overshadowed today. I am instead overcome with gratitude for the years I spent with her. The fact that I have any memories at all is enough. But they do and they did. Those with faith would say that we don't know God's plan and for reasons we don't understand it was her time. I envy that faith. Despite having a keen awareness that li...The t...

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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: July 2015

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Saturday, July 11, 2015. A person who makes, does, or discovers something new and makes it acceptable or popular. Grand Canyon National Park (with more photos at the bottom of the post). What if I conceded to the tenets of the status quo and didn't trust myself to help create what I believe is a much needed educational alternative? The answer is crystal clear in my mind when I remember the ideology that brought me to this place nearly three years ago: There ca...

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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: April 2015

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Meeting a Meanderthal on Purchase Knob! Luck that takes the form of finding valuable or pleasant things that are not looked for. Spring fever hits hard at Hickory Hills Academy (the official name of our home school) about this time each year. There are days when core subjects have no choice but to take a backseat to the call of the great outdoors. Today was one of those days. When we reached the Appalachian Highlands Learning Center.

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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: January 2015

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Tuesday, January 20, 2015. Why I Love Winter Backpacking. I was with Mama the first time I went backpacking in winter. I wanted to be on the top of a mountain to ring in the new year and she wasn't happy with me for planning to go solo. The decision for her to go was as simple as that. She had never backpacked before and would have been content if she never did,. In the bitter cold of late December. I did, however, come across a creepy scene on the ridge line-...

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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: February 2015

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Thursday, February 19, 2015. Scavenging in the Smokies. Richard Louv, in his well-known book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder,. That's all well and good, but the big question in my mind is often, "How do you do it? Last March, I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a fabulous opportunity that helped answer my own question- a family friendly scavenger hunt hosted by Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont. Friday aft...

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Hope is the Thing With Feathers: March 2015

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Trail Reports and Stories About the Journey. Sunday, March 22, 2015. If you read my last blog post, you know my family and I were hiking on Friday to an undisclosed "secret" location. It probably wasn't hard to figure where we were (Mt. LeConte) but you may not have known why it was a secret initially, unless you read about our adventures. Last year in the scavenger hunt at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont. The rules didn't say you couldn't be on. You walk right through Arch Rock! I have never ...