Category: Featured
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Adventure Photography – Zion Narrows Silky Timelapses And Daunting Canyons
The Narrows hike in Zion National Park is probably my choice for the best bang-for-the-buck National Park hike. It’s a huge slot canyon, stunningly beautiful, not particularly difficult, and is fun as heck. When it’s not raining and the flash flood danger is low, it’s a not-to-be-missed hike in Zion. I’ll write some tips down
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#1 One Fear A Day – Fear Of The Unknown
Today, I’m going to start a sub-series on my website entitled “One Fear A Day”. Over the course of the past few years, I’ve written a number of heartfelt posts on risingbean, and I am deeply, deeply grateful for all you who have followed me, offered feedback, contributed comments, shared my work, and have encouraged…
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How To Ride The Waves Of Change – 8 Tips On How To Adapt To Change
I watched this TED talk this past week about retrofitting the suburbs . I particularly liked it over other documentaries on suburbia because it wasn’t so nihilistic and the speaker, Ellan Dunham Jones, offered some inventive solutions to make the suburbs more sustainable. I grew up in the suburbs. I understand what life’s like out…
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A Guilt And Gratitude Lesson In Myanmar (Burma)
“I’ll have this ice cream float” I pointed to a picture on a menu while a waiter to my order before wearily slumping into the comfy cushioned seating of a quasi-upscale restaurant in Myanmar. Soon, this would be the location of an important personal lesson on gratitude. Let me provide a little background for those of…
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Homeless On Two Continents
Two years ago, when I first went temporarily homeless willingly, it was a bittersweet pill to swallow. I had quietly left Toronto with little support, and actually, to a bit of criticism. As I tucked my -10 degree sleeping bag over myself in preparation for a cold night in my car, somewhere along the interstate…
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A Sincere Thank You Letter To The People Who Fired Me
(Note: I wrote this article in March, but delayed publishing it until today) Three years ago to this day, I was unceremoniously fired from my job. At the time, I felt like a big failure. After all, no one got fired from the company I worked at. It was such a big deal that I…