Soul of the sky; Feet of the earth; Head above water; Heart in the sea
“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.” – Jack Kerouac Nature has always served as external connective tissue between my head and heart; a fulcrum of balance in my life. When I was small it saturated my existence with color through pockets
Peak Experience
“Hot Pizza/Cold Beer” said the black and white sign. “Last Chance” is what that metal sign said in all 24 of our young minds, as we questioned the next 11 days before us. The potentially gluttonous invitation for hot pizza and cold beer being the last vestige of the civilized world, or so we thought
One Bright Green Leaf
From 1979 – 83, my friends and I lived a rich, varied, sometimes-studious, and vibrant life in and around Chapman. Once my friend Paul Carey ’83 (MBA ’00) and I went camping near Big Bear. We got lost, then spotted a wildfire starting, watched the fire crews and helicopter water drops fly right over
Adjusting My Altitude
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir. “Just a few hundred more feet and you’ll be able to rest” I remind myself with the knowledge that Camp Muir is just over the crest of the snowfield I am tirelessly trekking up. Other hikers on their way
All Good Things are Wild and Free
On August 11, 2015, in Missoula, Montana a wind super-storm reached gusts of 74 miles per hour, a Class I Hurricane. Lightning sparked fires on dry August hillsides and residential gardens. Power lines fell, leaving thousands without power for days. Trees were uprooted and downed – landing in intersections, blocking sidewalks, and crushing
Get After It
Getting after Mother Nature means everything. It takes many different forms, for many different reasons, and satisfies infinite tiny essential nutrients for my universe. The greatest thing I’ve gained, beyond anything else the last year and a half of making Momma Earth my number one gal has taught me, is how to enjoy time alone. You
Wake Up Call
It’s good to embellish on your resume, or so they say. But after my first day on a trail crew in middle-of-nowhere New Mexico, I regretted every word I had written about “sleeping in the backcountry for extended periods of time,” or “comfortable with manual labor,” or “able to hike in all weather conditions.”
Where the Wild Things Are
In June 2015, I traveled to southern Africa with my family. The first leg of our trip was 10 days on safari in Botswana. It truly was a wild trip. We had 10 days of absolute isolation – traveling through the bush during the day and pitching a tent at night. We did everything we
Alumni artists form Patient Experience group to publicly discuss illness
Leave it to Chapman’s Panthers to use creativity to break barriers surrounding cultural taboos. Patient Experience , a group of Chapman alumni and independent artists, creates artwork to shed not just light, but a conversation-starting spotlight, on illness. The group was founded in 2014 after Siobhan Hebron , a Los Angeles-based artist and sister of Chapman professor Micol Hebron,
Calling All CES Alumni: Gather for change at California Teachers Summit
It’s said that when people gather, powerful things happen. And we know that when Panthers gather, extraordinary change follows. All College of Educational Studies alumni are invited to join forces with fellow teachers (and fellow Panthers!) at “Better Together: California Teachers Summit” on July 31, 2015. This one-of-a-kind event aims to help teachers build a powerful peer