Joey Cofone on the magic of micro-vacations.
If you want to be healthy, you wouldn’t eat garbage for seven weeks and then workout 24/7 on the eighth week— you have to go to the gym frequently and consistently.
I love small (size wise), short (page wise), and focused (content wise) books like this. Been long trying to find a self-publishing outfit that would allow me to write/make one.
“Do you have a plan?” | Seth’s Blog
Relevant food for thought to many of the discussions I’ve been having recently.
I love the idea of Alastair Johnson’s “Hello” page. Telling people up front where you spend time online, how to contact you, and why. I’ve found a large part of inbox overwhelm is due to lack of communication around expectations.
Massive rain and wind storm is moving through where we are. We’re stuck in the restaurant where we just finished dinner. Nothing to do but wait and have a…
Nation Park Number 4 for this trip: Badlands
The Middle of Somewhere
Who can find a fantastic brewery with great food in the middle nowhere Montana? Bethany can!
I recently posted the photo and caption above to Instragram. My wife posted a similar one with a caption also saying we were in the middle of nowhere.
But that was not the truth.
The truth was we were in Cut Bank, Montana which is historically part of The Blackfeet Nation. Which has been a somewhere long before The United States was an anywhere. Hardly “nowhere”.
And, I think this is important to remember. Because words mean things. The easiest way to erase a people and a place is to do so with language. To say “no one” lives there or that it is in the “middle of nowhere”. Yet, we use such language all the time.
I pledge to be better about this.
Because, to the people that live there, it is not only somewhere — it is the center of the universe. The middle of everywhere. And this is true for every human being in the billions of places we live. Every place is somebody’s somewhere. We need to honor and acknowledge this.
Tonight, I’m resting on the stolen ancestral lands of The Blackfeet Nation. I’m in the middle of somewhere. And, for me, tonight, it is the center of the universe
My wife writes about what Bozeman, Montana gets right about historic preservation. A lovely city that I feel I did not get enough time in and can’t wait to get back to some day.
Glacier National Park… Near sunset.
(Download the Full Res Version to use as a Desktop Picture here)
Important reference material: The 7 Principles – Leave No Trace