Posting from my iphone: Sunday I hiked the Liberty Lake Loop, all 9 miles of it, on a day that had such varied weather. We started with broken clouds, then there was tiny pellets of snow, heavy rain, snow flakes, and strong wind. It was exciting and likely why we...

Spokane’s Bloomsday Run 2023

It’s been a few decades since I’ve run Spokane’s Bloomsday 7.49 mile fun run with 33,000 or so runners! What a great time. It was awesome to see the community come out to support the runners with music, water, Otter Pops, ice cream, and doughnuts. I didn’t partake in...

Blooms in spring

Walking in the early morning with Bear, my dog, felt so wonderful in the above freezing temperature. It was a very cold winter and early spring, with temperatures in the teens. I really don’t mind freezing cold in January and February, but by March I was very anxious...

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Walking in the early morning with Bear, my dog, felt so wonderful in the above freezing temperature. It was a very cold winter and early spring, with temperatures in the teens. I really don’t mind freezing cold in January and February, but by March I was very anxious...
The Odyssey Back Home

The Odyssey Back Home

At that time I finally read Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning.” I had thought my suffering was making me a better person, like Christ suffering for us, but Viktor Frankl writes, “But let me make it perfectly clear that in no way is suffering necessary to find...