Undiscovered Earth

Be a Kid – Fall in the Snow and make a Snow Angel

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Environmental News – Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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Living Simply

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:51:02 +0000

Slogan TM Java

Between reading Thoreau and watching movies that have addressed living simply, I have let my mind filter through what living simply really means to me. A friend believes it to be a state of mind, but I believe the choice to live simply to be more concrete than that. As I’m getting ready to move I have the opportunity to evaluate each bobble and picture I have in my home, each book I have read and painstakingly carried from one destination to the next over the years and I have been asking myself what I need to live. I do not need the Celtic skull that reminds me of a trip to Ireland, that memory is already stored inside. I don’t need the books I’ve treasured but will most likely not read again. I do not need candles I haven’t burned in 3 years or wooden carvings that watch over me. I used to think I needed these things to express myself, to define myself, but all of that is in me. What I need only is shelter, food and a bed is always nice to sleep on, but the ground will do for a whilel. Warmth in winter and water to drink. That’s it.

As changes take place in my life, I am weeding through a past that sits in boxes and on tables and on walls and I ask myself, what do I need to live? What do I need to survive?

Environmental News – Tuesday, February 21, 2012

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Alpine Aire Foods

admin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:17:49 +0000

I know I’ve covered these guys before, but I have to give another shout out. On my descent into homelessness, I’ve been on a very strict food budget and to supplement what I could afford to buy, I have been eating leftover Alpine Aire meals for my main meal every day.

When you’re camping, almost anything tastes good because you’re generally so hungry, but to have your freeze dried dinners taste delicious in the comfort of your own home is something completely different. These meals have a variety of flavors, textures and use only fresh ingredients. I feel good after I eat the meals and what would serve as 1 portion in the woods serves easily as two portions at home.

I’m down to my last meal and have been eating them for the last two months. I cannot recommend these foods enough. From their apple blueberry cobbler to their pastas, orange chicken, mustard chicken, turkey with mashed potatoes and gravy, this is one amazing company!

Environmental News – Friday, February 17, 2012

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When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone – Galway Kinnell

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:51:03 +0000

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When one has lived a long time alone,

one wants to live again among men and women,

to return to that place where one’s ties with the human

broke, where the disquiet of death and now also

of history glimmers its firelight on faces,

where the gaze of the new baby looks past the gaze

of the great granny, and where lovers speak,

on lips blowsy from kissing, that language

the same in each mouth, and like birds at daybreak

blether the song that is both earth’s and heaven’s

until the sun has risen and they stand

in a halo of being made one: kingdom come,

when one has lived a long time alone.

-Galway Kinnell

When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone

Environmental News – Thursday, February 16, 2012

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:37:36 +0000

Free

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:47:27 +0000

Last night the Shook Twins sang a song in Hailey, Idaho about being free. I knew then that was the reason I always retreat to the woods; to be free. Free of society, free of rules, free of perception and free to find the essence of me. Spending time in the woods isn’t about running away, it’s about discovery at its core. It’s about finding the strength of self and the weakness. To be free is to strip away society, to strip away religion, strip away expectation and see what I can really do. I’m ready to be free again.

Environmental News – Wednesday, February 15, 2012

admin — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:40:03 +0000