WILD splendid life is a personal journal inspired by the world outside. Through memory and reflection, it honors the ways in which our inner lives are enriched by and reminiscent of the outdoors--its "magic things" and grand diversions, its distant corners and discoveries close at hand. Adventure in the wild features prominently here, rounded out by the comforts of home, good food, and strolls through the city. Colorado, as well as destinations around the globe, provide the setting. Like life, publication frequency ebbs and flows.
Read moreShe pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net.
Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder,
so much of life in its meshes!
She called in her soul to come and see.
Havana and Varadero – Cuba. It takes either strict discipline or absolute freedom of mind to allow an experience to unfold as it will without imposing our own expectations or preconceived opinions. To do so is to accept life’s happenings and…
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Havana and Matanzas – Cuba. What do our work spaces say about who we are? Several years ago, a management consultant to my employer at the time remarked at how sparsely decorated my office was. “Why don’t you have any personal…
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Old and Central Havana – Cuba. If you think about it, doors are peculiar structures, and the space they occupy — the doorway — can be fraught. Doors serve dual purposes: to let in, and to keep out. They beg to…
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Havana – Cuba. What is it that we pine for during moments of nostalgia? Is it something we long for in ourselves? In others? Is it a criticism of contemporary culture or modern policy? What does it mean when that past…
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Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park – Key Biscayne, Florida, U.S.A. Visitors to Southern Florida make a beeline for South Beach–those who live there know to go elsewhere. The drive to Key Biscayne from Miami presents many opportunities to stop…
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Wynwood Art District – Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Those who venture beyond the sand and neon lights of South Beach know that Wynwood–just on the other side of the Biscayne Bay–is one of the funkiest neighborhoods in Miami. Sometimes called Little San…
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Miami Beach – Florida, U.S.A. Emerging in 1920s France, Arts Décoratifs et Industriel Modernes, or Art Deco, celebrates the luxury, glamour, and mobility brought by the technological advancements of the interwar period. Through symmetry, industrial motifs, bold colors, and geometric shapes, Art Deco conveys…
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