Tag Archives: nature

Traveling Through the Iron Country

Posted on March 27, 2015 by forstegrupp

 This past Monday and Tuesday, I drove back and forth from Minneapolis to Decorah, which is a small town of about 8,000 people in northern Iowa. The night before the drive, a winter storm dropped several inches on snow. Driving on … Continue reading →

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How does beauty connect with self and writing?

Posted on August 15, 2013 by forstegrupp

Some times you are in a place so lovely that it defies description. That was the Waimea Canyon in Kaua’i in July. But isn’t this judgment subjective? Someone else might not find this view sublime because it contains no human … Continue reading →

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Haskell and the mandalas of nature

Posted on October 29, 2012 by forstegrupp

I discovered David Haskell in this New York Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/science/david-haskell-finds-biology-zen-in-a-patch-of-nature.html?smid=pl-share Here he describes visiting the same place “mandala” for observation and renewal. He has a word press blog “Ramble” which I follow.

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