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Delight Diary

An exercise in awareness and celebration of little moments of joy.

 

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I had never made a film before, but the Trail Running Film Festival was taking amateur submissions and I needed something to keep me busy during this time of home quarantine and social distancing. Big thanks to Julia Mark for her work on the music!

 

 
 
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View fullsize I’ve never been a night person, except maybe in high school. My friend Ross and I would sneak out after my parents went to bed. We pushed my car out of the driveway and down the street so they wouldn’t hear (even tho they didn’t car
View fullsize In 1975 New Zealand created a truth and reconciliation commission called the Waitangi Tribunal to redress current and historic injustice. The tribunal has restored Maori names to maps, helped propagate the Maori language, returned land, and even infl
View fullsize I found this image while looking back thru photos the other day. My original edit from 2015 (which is still in my feed somewhere) made me cringe. It was like reading a poem you wrote in 8th grade...a little (way) over the top. Nice to have a chance t
View fullsize We have a chance to end uranium mining in Grand Canyon forever! There are many obvious reasons to ban uranium mining in the Canyon, but the potential for it to contaminate springs (including the spring that is the sole water source for the Havasupai
View fullsize A few years ago Josh and I got to spend a few days eating dehydrated food and shivering in the desert together before he had to get on a plane back to Portland. We stopped at a truck stop for our first showers in over a week, then I dropped him off a
View fullsize Somehow forgot about these shots from our last little North Rim excursion in October. Fun to find them on the hard drive! 📍Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Hualapai, Havasupai, Yavapai-Apache, and Southern Paiute Land . . . . #grandcanyon #thisispackrafting #gle
View fullsize Ceili is my best friend. She helped me get back into running. She’s beaten me in every race we’ve run together from 5k to 50k, except one (which I trained twice as much for). She’s willing to step out of her comfort zone and try sca
View fullsize Katrina was my first friend at Lava Beds. I was totally out of my element in the snowy, volcanic landscape, but she was kind and welcoming. She taught me so much about how to live in a remote place, how to move efficiently thru caves, and how not to