“The past always comes clearer, in the future.”
Overstory. by Richard Powers
Corvallis, Oregon | 2025
expect the unexpected
When you hit dense fog-lightning storm-hail-sleet-snow in the span of a half hour and it stays: Welcome to camping in Wyoming at elevation. One dog whined and whimpered from the crack and booms.
little surprises
Menagerie Wilderness in the morning.
Bookstore in the afternoon.
Camping in the evening.
When Sunday Is Enough
A winter road in the PNW.
I run, no matter the weather. Snow crunches beneath me, and my breath rises in steady clouds that hover in my face. The cold doesn’t deter me; it sharpens. Each mile carves space in my mind, like footprints marking the path forward.
The afternoon arrives slowly, settling like snowfall or deep rain. A hot cup of tea in hand, I watch the world outside shift from day to dusk. Sunday, in all its simple rituals, feels like enough.
training in a dreamscape
New snow. Blue hour. Vibrant feelings.
walking in new snow
keeping it simple
“Run regularly. Not too fast. Mostly trails. ”
building endurance
heading outside to play
Target a horizon point and run to it. However long it takes.
the metrics of joy-awe-elation
Out from my archives and into the world as is. I’ll dispel the myth: its sunlight coming through a window.
After a long run followed by a long airplane ride while listening to Rick Rubin, he said that joy-awe-elation are the metrics for forward motion on an idea or project. Works for me, in a data-driven culture.
never starting from nothing
What is an image?
“…the ability to stay in motion, to be pulled by something, to follow it, and stay behind it…”
-Lynda Barry, What It Is
Trail “rike” (run-hike) fueled by day packs. 2024.