Author: Altea

This Sunday brought sunshine back to Cascade Head, and the clear sky called for a hike! It was a wonderful reconnection with our magic land here, a time of inspiration and amazing sights. After the last buckets of rain, the crave for outdoors had grown big… as I said to a friend later in the…

I apologize for the long gap! This week has been a busy one -the first of the kind since I arrived at Sitka. There have been all sorts of things going on and I am glad to be back to my nest in the net, to share them with you. Another resident has left the…

Here at the Sitka Campus it has been a bit of an unexpected day.  A trip to Portland was planned, and I was ready to hit the road with two other residents heading to a photograph show, some arts-and-crafts shopping and a visit to the Japanese Garden.  But as I was unawarely walking down to…

What does wilderness tell us about ourselves? What to hold on to? When walking alone in the forest, knowing we’re entering the domain of Cougar and Bear, stepping on and under trees as old as ancestors? What does our pinky funny body mean -no fur, no speed, no wings or fins, no shell or claw-…