Walking with a Bear S.O.U.L.

A collection of writings by:

Category: Wilderness Awareness

  • Thank you for being here!

    It is a real gift to know that you are there, living in your commitment. Expressing your true self. Choosing to walk towards right relation with the rest of creation. Perhaps there are others like you. I find myself wanting to exchange stories, but the time we have together is often so short. Yet there…

  • ON HAZARDS and Common Sense Awareness: Through the Mist: A Story of the Eastern Gate.

    Recounting a journey through fog and rocky waters, emphasizing the challenges of navigating the unknown. Instead of viewing fear and uncertainty as obstacles, the author embraces them as part of a deeper relationship with the sea. This experience fosters respect and connection, transforming fear into a guiding force.

  • The Moment Everything Turned to Look at Me

    I was eleven years old, deep on a portage trail, when something shifted. The trees, the wind, the earth beneath my feet—it all turned toward me, as if nature itself had a sparkle in its eye. It wasn’t just me moving through the wilderness; the wilderness was alive, aware, seeing me as if it was…

  • SOARING EAGLE VISION

    It’s ironic that on a cloudy, misty day I sit to write of the soaring eagle vision. Generally, the eagle is thought of as a majestic visionary bird who soars high in the blue sky with the crisp brightness of the sun high overhead. And that is the crystal clarity that one might seek in…

  • You don’t know what you don’t know. Flip that upside down and ask how knowing about something differs from deeply knowing something? What is knowing? To know is to be one with. According to an old friend, Clare Blanchflower, The mind gets in the way by conceptualizing and projecting its concepts outwards onto the play…

  • Returning With Vision

    Reposted from: April 22, 2013 (cohesion |kōˈhē zh ən|noun the action or fact of forming a united whole : the work at present lacks cohesion.) Cohesive was the last word I remembered while going to bed last night after a day of transformation and integration.  There was really only one thing keeping me back from surrendering to this beautiful reality…