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If the inspirational Post-It-Note quotes on your cubicle have lost their stickiness.  If your tent has held more dust in the basement than people in the woods.  Or if you have gone on a great hike but can’t remember if it was last fall or, no, two falls ago –I have a bit of motivation for you. This time it’s in book form:  Rhythm of the Wild: A Life Inspired by Alaska’s Denali National Park, a new memoir… Read More

orca, killer whales, alaska, ocean

The first one went off like a shot.  In the distance, a burst of vapor rose high above the water’s surface.  It was quickly wiped away by the wind and followed almost immediately by another nearby burst, and then another.  There were six blows in total, orcas, killer whales, rising to the surface to breathe before diving in unison, reemerging always closer to us than the time before.