Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris A book worth reading to get a better understanding of rural America, and the rest of America too… “I had stumbled onto a basic truth of asceticism: that is it not necessarily a denigration of the body, though it has often been misapplied for that purpose. Rather, it is […]
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Laura Ingalls Wilder & John Muir
As I read John Muir’s The Story of My Boyhood and Youth I thought about how much it reminded me of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books. Shocked at my own thoughts, I decided to write them out to see why my mind was making a connection between the writings of John Muir, naturalist, founder of the […]
