Growing up I lived on a farm.  My earliest memories are full of fond experiences with cows, chickens, dogs, puppies, turtles, frogs, snakes, bugs, worms, butterflies, etc.  I am sure that my mother had at least a dozen mini heart attacks due to my brother and I bringing our new “pets” that we had found into the house.  When it rained my brother and I would play in the mud, dam up the small streams of water in an attempt to make small “ponds” and “lakes”.  During those years as a young boy I…

Okay, this is not really related to the outdoors, but I thought that some people on this site might find it interesting. The link is to a preview for a film on a couple of Black astrophysicists who will be studying the solar eclipse happening this summer. 

http://blackcommunityentertainment.com/videos/1345/black-sun-five-minute-short

In our journey to living our new dream, we chose to abandon much of our old life. Not because we’re super dangerous fugitives on the run who can’t leave behind a trail for the deadly international assassins in pursuit, but because it is this shedding of the unimportant material items that will allow us to focus on the important things in life.  Remember how I said that the reaction to our new dream life was somewhere along the lines of, “For real?!?!?!….”  This abandoning of…

The Dream