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Iron Peak is situated north of Cle Elum, WA. If you are familiar with Ingalls Lake popular especially in Larch Season, this trailhead is just shy of that trail's start....

I am a bit on the fence as to whether I should post this entry, but I figure this blog is so little read, it can't possibly cause a run...

Mount Townsend

Took the kids to their first drive in experience. I was flashing back to riding in a friend's parents' minivan in Wysox. The kids had the Squatch my van, I...

It's Spring break. On Monday, I did Packwood Lake. Today, Friday, I needed something else. Part of the reason I hike is to give myself the space to process all...

It's spring break. My kids are in Oregon. I needed to process, recharge, be... just... be. I chose Packwood Lake. Packwood was a wonderful experience. I arrived at the trailhead...

My pal Nicole and I were overdue for a daylong adventure. This was coming 4 days after my birthday, and I was hoping to do somethign a little epic. When...

For now... just a bunch of pics of some of the things the kids and I make.

March 1, 2026 My sons and I hiked the Ancient Lakes Trail, north of the Gorge Ampitheatre. Simon and I had mapped out a 10 mi loop on AllTrails beginning...

This is the time of year when I find myself thinking more about Dad than usual. It's been 8 years since mom called me with the news. Time is a...

The REAL fun is getting the kids involved and seeing what happens.

I needed just a short hike to reset my mind. The Old Sauk River Trail was a great choice.

A printable pneumatic golf ball cannon. This project began as an exploration of pneumatics with my sons and their great uncle, Chuck. Our first cannon was a traditional pneumatic cannon...

A journaling app that helps you reflect.

Part game, part meditation, part social experiment.

Ryplz is the anti Social Network.

Hiking Dosewallips River

Hiking Mount Forgotten Meadows

This hike was just John and me.

This proved to be one of my kids' favorites! Rachel lake, in itself, is a great site to see but very popular. If you continue onward to the Rampart Lakes,...

I'm writing this entry a year aftertheface, which is unforunate, as I love to capture the moment of an event, and certainly, Green Mountain Lookout deserves a bit more attention...

I took the kids on this trail a year ago to see the larches. We couldn't finish as weather kicked up. I went on my own. The colors did not...

This was a solo hike I did back in 2022. Steep, quiet, incredible. If I'm hiking solo, it takes me probably half the hike the uphill to get my brain...

Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats

I Vow to Thee, My Country by Cecil Spring Rice

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e e cummings PoetrySpokenCOM

I wandered lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth PoetrySpoken.com

The Tyger by William Blake on PoetrySpoken.com

Go Slow by A P Herbert - PoetrySpokenCOM

Among School Children by William Butler Yeats PoetrySpoken com

Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte, PhD - PoetrySpoken COM

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair by Stephen C Foster

Jerusalem - And did those feet in ancient time - William Blake - PoetrySpoken.COM

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell - PoetrySpoken COM

Whales Weep Not! by DH Lawrence read by Seth Hunter Perkins

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, PoetrySpoken.com, Ep 171

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats | Ep #170

I do not love you except because I love you by Pablo Neruda | Ep #169

Sonnet 81 by Pablo Neruda | Ep #168

Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby by Donald Barthelme | Ep #167

Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes Ep #165

If you Forget Me by Pablo Neruda | Ep #164

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #162

Dreams by Langston Hughes | Ep #163

Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath | Ep #161

Tulips by Sylvia Plath | Ep# 160

Television by Roald Dahl | Ep #159

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost | Ep #158

Sonnet 125 William Shakespeare | Ep #157

Sonnet 133 by William Shakespeare | Ep #153

Sonnet 34 by William Shakespeare | Ep #152

The Lullaby of a Lover by George Gascoigne | Ep #155

The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare | Ep #156

The Art of War, Section 1, by Sun Tzu, read by Seth Hunter Perkins

Transfiguration 2.0 by Seth Hunter Perkins | Ep #151

Transfiguration by Seth Hunter Perkins | Ep #150

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg | Ep #148

Howl 2 and 3 by Allen Ginsberg | Ep #147

Howl, Part 1 by Allen Ginsberg | Ep #146

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #145

Because it was Easier by Jude Wesley | Ep #142

Lover to His Lass by Duncan Campbell Scott | Ep #141

I Cannot Change as Others Do by Lord John Wilmot | Ep #140

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats | Ep #139

The Good-Morrow by John Donne | Ep #138

The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ep #137

Ode on Autumn by John Keats | Ep #135

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not Proud by John Donne | Ep #136

To My Wife With A Copy Of My Poems by Oscar Wilde | Ep #134

The Yellow Bird by Tennessee Williams | Ep #133

High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Jr | Ep #131

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde | Ep #132

24 To You from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #127

25 Thou Reader from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #128

22 Shut Not Your Doors from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #125

23 Poets to Come from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #126

20 What Place Is Besieged from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #130

21 Still Though the One I Sing from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #124

19 I Hear America Singing from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #123

17 Savantism from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #122

18 The Ship Starting from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #129

16 Me Imperturbe from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #121

15 To A Certain Cantatrice from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #118

14 On Journeys Through the States from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #120

13 To The States from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #119

12 Beginners from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #117

11 Beginning My Studies from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #116

10 When I Read the Book from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #115

9 For Him I Sing from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #114

8 Eidolons from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #113

7 To Thee Old Cause, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #112

4 In Cabin'd Ships at Sea from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #111

1 Introduction Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #110

2 One's-Self I Sing Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #109

3 As I Ponder'd in Silence Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #108

5 To Foreign Lands Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #107

6 To A Historian Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #106

Hamlet - "To Be or Not to Be" by William Shakespeare | Ep #105

Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ep #104

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold | Ep #103

Song of Earendil by JRR Tolkien | Ep #102

On Eating and Drinking from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #101

On Giving from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #100

On Joy and Sorrow from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #99

On Love from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #98

On Children from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #97

"To You" by Walt Whitman | Ep #96

"A Dream within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #93

"A Word to Husbands" by Ogden Nash | Ep #95

"Hopes and Dreams" from Missed Connections - by A...W... | Ep #90

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth | Ep #92

"No Second Troy" by William Butler Yeats | Ep #94

"There is Another Sky" by Emily Dickinson | Ep #91

Ulysses revisted by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ep #89

Messy Room by Shel Silverstein | Ep #87

"The Tyger" by William Blake | Ep #86

"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein | Ep #88

The Hollow Men by T S Eliot | Ep #85

The Mountain by Seth Hunter Perkins | Ep #84

The Quarry by Karol Józef Wojtyła | Ep #83

You and I have Learned by Leonard Nimoy | Ep #82

Elegy to the Jolliest Uncle, Who Lived by Avleen Kaur | Ep #80

Prayer by Maya Angelou | Ep #81

Her Pyre and His Tomb by Avleen Kaur | Ep #79

Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #77

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day by William Shakespeare | Ep #76

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Ep #75

The Blossom Never Knows by Dilip Kumar Roy | Ep #74

Sea Fever by John Masefield | Ep #73

Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning | Ep #72

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Ep #71

Please Call Me By My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh | Ep #70

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Audiobook) | Ep #69

The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 1 of 5 The Burial of the Dead | Ep #65

The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 2 of 5 : A Game of Chess | Ep #66

The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 3 and 4 of 5 :The Fire Sermon and Death by Water | Ep #67

The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 5 of 5 : What the Thunder Said | Ep #68

Reconciliation by Walt Whitman | Ep #64

Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman | Ep #63

Miracles by Walt Whitman | Ep #62

I Sit and Look Out by Walt Whitman | Ep #61

A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman | Ep #60

Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar | Ep #59

No Man is an Island by John Donne | Ep #58

Bright Star by John Keats | Ep #57

Psalm 23 King James Version (KJV) | Ep #54

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye | Ep #55

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann | Ep #56

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day by Gerard Manley Hopkins | Ep #53

Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen | Ep #52

PoetrySpoken.com - Studying Humanity by Speaking the Written Word

It Rains by Adam Crossley | Ep #51

Inferno Canto 4 by Dante Aleghieri translated by Longfellow | Ep #50

The Inferno by Dante Aleghieri translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Canto 3 | Ep #49

I Dreamd in a Dream by Walt Whitman | Ep #41

The Voice of the Rain by Walt Whitman | Ep #46

One's Self I Sing by Walt Whitman | Ep #44

Poets to Come by Walt Whitman | Ep #43

As I Ponder'd in Silence by Walt Whitman | Ep #40

To a Stranger by Walt Whitman | Ep #45

I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman | Ep #42

Inferno Canto 1 by Dante Aleghieri Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ep #39

The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ep #37

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Ep #35

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost | Ep #36

O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman | Ep #38

Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #33

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ep #31

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field | Ep #32

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae | Ep #30

Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #29

Afton Water by Robert Burns | Ep #28

Walden by Henry David Thoreau | Ep #27

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman | Ep #26

A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement C Moore | Ep #25

If by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #24

Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #23

Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #22

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas | Ep #21

I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Allan Seeger | Ep #18

Invictus by William Ernest Henley | Ep #20

"Hope" is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson | Ep #19

1 Corinthians 13 | Ep #10

"Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer | Ep #12

"Kubla Kahn" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ep #16

"Surrender Speech" of Chief Joseph | Ep #11

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson | Ep #15

"The Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll | Ep #13

The Yipiyuk by Shel Silverstein | Ep #14

We Shall Fight on the Beaches by Winston Churchill | Ep #17

The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke | Ep #9

"She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron | Ep #8

"Oh Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman | Ep #6

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats | Ep #5

The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #4

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ep #3

The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning | Ep #2

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning | Ep #1