Slow is smooth and smooth is fast, say the rangers or the seals or some extreme group of elite soldiers who we pedestal for being the peak of focus and achievement. Also, Nature would suggest, much is accomplished by rest, apparent idleness, and letting things do their thing without you hovering and fussing and tapping your foot… basically, while you’re looking the other way, or on holidays having forgotten about them. What if our analogies for leadership and productivity came from Nature, instead of sports, machines, war and celebrities? Would life just be BETTER?
Category: mountain culture
The Shape of Time
For professional climber Ines Papert and mountain guide Sarah Hueniken, 50 is just a number. “It’s just one day after 49 — and today you’re the youngest you’re ever going to be,” they remind us. What other insights can we glean from two of the most accomplished climbers of our generation?
Culture is a real estate problem
How secret poetry appreciators and others need places to act out their wild imaginings Here’s a sneak peek at tomorrow’s Pique back page. Exclusive to subscribers! (You can read it there at https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/opinion-culture-is-a-real-estate-problem-11557490) Kerry Dorey, Jay Molloy and I had this idea. Officially, we’re the Society of Secret Poetry Appreciators, but you should know that…
Tend the Invisible
Jasper, a year after a wildfire burned a third of the town to the ground, felt cauterized, cut off from its own vitality, as though burns had staunched overt bloodshed but left gnarled scar tissue that was hard to look at. It’s impossible as an outsider to know how the fire actually affected the community,…
Influence flows in all directions
The man on the screen has slung a hammock tent between two posts and loaded it up with bags of concrete, to show how much it can hold. He pokes his head above the mountain of mounds, the hammock defiantly taut, while a caption reads “Do not try this at home.” The Kickstarter for the…
This is how we Solstice
I never write about horse camp because it’s hard to touch with words, it’s a “you have to be there” kind of experience. But I did write a caption to go along with some photos I shared on instagram and CCO’s media-savvy marketer, Hailey asked “wanna write a blog post?” and so I tried to…
100 days of yoga teaching
107 days ago, I started teaching yoga, at the ripe old age of 49 2/3. I had not planned on doing this. In fact, when I was doing yoga teacher training, I was vehement: I’m not doing this to become a teacher. I loved the teacher, and I wanted to do more than a drop-in…
Get Engaged
I had a flash of cold clarity: is this the phone call that changes the rest of my life?
Long live the stories, long live the niches
I have a horror for monoculture and monopoly. (I believe that diversity seeds resilience.) Professionally, I have loved being able to lift up the kind of people who make my little piece of the world better – quirky, flavoursome, interesting, unique, richer. Yesterday, Craft MTN, a sweet little zine from the team at Freehub, wound…
Royal Rumble: Pemberton
In the spring issue of Mountain Life, Coast Mountains, the communities of the corridor flex on their unique attributes. I got to speak for Pemberton. via https://www.mountainlifemedia.ca/2024/03/royal-rumble-pemberton/ Wayne Andrew, Líl̓wat horseman and a legendary rodeo rider in his prime, told me recently how Pemberton got its name. A story his grandfather told him. Passed on…
Lisa Richardson Bylines 