October 2018 - Lif Strand....

Cruel Boots

By Lif Strand | October 23, 2018 - 5:27 PM |October 23, 2018 Adventure, Equipment, Grand Canyon

Boots. They aren’t all made for walking. Continue reading →

Grand adventure

By Lif Strand | October 22, 2018 - 6:21 PM |October 22, 2018 Adventure, Grand Canyon

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I took this photo of the Colorado River in January, 2008. I was with my friend Laura, starting out not long after dawn from the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It would take us till mid-afternoon to hike up Bright Angel Trail to the rim. In January, 2019, Laura and… Continue reading →

Sometimes it’s good

By Lif Strand | October 21, 2018 - 1:54 PM |October 21, 2018 About writing

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I write all the time I don’t mean all the blabbery on social media. I’m talking real writing — at least by my definition of “real”. Stories. I stopped writing them a long time ago but now I do again. Why? Don’t know. I write the occasional poem. I’m no… Continue reading →

Getting plastered

By Lif Strand | October 17, 2018 - 2:29 PM |October 17, 2018 Homesteading

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Next month I will have lived in my straw bale house for twenty years. In all that time I haven’t managed to finish it — specifically, I have barely started the plastering. That would be the step that makes the straw bale house so incredibly insulated and worth the effort… Continue reading →

Farewell fish

By Lif Strand | October 14, 2018 - 11:23 AM |October 17, 2018 Environment, Homesteading

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It didn’t have to happen but what did I expect? I knew if I didn’t take defensive measures I’d lose them. There would ultimately be no escape because they were besieged by an enemy that had the patience of one who had felt hunger before and would feel it again…. Continue reading →

Coming home

By Lif Strand | October 11, 2018 - 10:45 PM |October 11, 2018 Spirituality & magick

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I suppose I’m not a good traveler. Maybe I’m defective that way. But I like where I live. No. I love where I live. I just got home tonight from a road trip. Back in the day I thought nothing of hitchhiking across the country. Now driving from New Mexico… Continue reading →

Monthly Archives: October 2018

Cruel Boots

Grand adventure

Sometimes it’s good

Getting plastered

Farewell fish

Coming home

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