The Whispering-Earth

The-Pathfinder: “Quick Stop Leads To Quick Find”

Quick Stop Leads To Quick Find Heading out on a much needed vacation, my family stopped to stretch our legs at a rest stop on the eastbound side of Interstage 64 between Richmond and Williamsburg. We were traveling to Virginia Beach where we would spend three nights. Figuring their would be a cache hidden at [...]

Break In The Heat

Following a couple of weeks of extreme heat and higher temperatures, I am pleased to be enjoying cooler weather. It reminds me of spring … of which I feel I missed this year … thanks in part to my own self for being an inside person for a few months when not working. My hope [...]

The Countdown Begins

I have begun the countdown to vacation … and after a month and a half of what feels like work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work work [...]

Not Every Story Has To Be Written

I am a hunter of stories.  … I feel it is one of the reasons I walk this earth. And let me say first that this stories are not so much stories I photograph and write so much as stories that I am honored to capture and allows to flow through me. These stories often [...]

Prayers and Realizations by the Fire

Prayers and Realizations by the Fire

I marked this past Friday night by spending time praying beside the fire with the personal prayer pipe I keep. To my sorrow, too much time has passed since I last did this as for a long time I fear I was a bit lost and wandering about the wilderness. However, the prayer was filled [...]

The Places We Go & Observations We Make

This afternoon found me covering a news assignment where I had to photograph a man who sells produce at the farmer’s market and local businesses from what he grows on his property. One of the first things I noticed was how his property is about the same size as where I live. To make a [...]

The Places We Go & Observations We Make

The Places We Go & Observations We Make

This afternoon found me covering a news assignment where I had to photograph a man who sells produce at the farmer’s market and local businesses from what he grows on his property. One of the first things I noticed was how his property is about the same size as where I live. To make a [...]

The Ties That Bind Us Together

Exert from from www.whitebison.org‘s — Elder’s Meditation of the Day – February 25 “The Creator was responsible for the existence of everything, a part of the Creator’s spirit exists in everything and thus all things are connected.” –Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA For me, this is of the Great Mystery of which we are all apart [...]

Tree of Life

I stumbled across the following bit of text the other day and it spoke to me. “When a tribe cleared the land for a settlement, they always left a great tree in the middle. This is where the chieftain would be inaugurated — for the tree, with its roots extending to the lower world and [...]

A Herald of Spring's Approach?

While sitting inside the house this past weekend, there came a noise from outside. A mockingbird let lose with a beautiful song that normally heralds the arrival of spring. I could not help but smile at the sound of my feathered friend.