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Resistance Whispers, “It’s Already Been Done. Why Bother?”
For a long time, I hesitated to share my photography. “There are already so many photographers out there.” Everyone has a camera....
Michael Kennedy
Jun 32 min read


A Good Time or a Good Story
The upside of unpredictability Baby Wood Stork's First Flight There's a great deal of discipline required in becoming a pilot. Pilots go...
Michael Kennedy
May 314 min read


Read This If You Want to Feel Better
Meet the Flinstones As we get older, one of the things that seems to fade along with our hearing, is our vision. Not just our eyesight,...
Michael Kennedy
May 32 min read


Beyond Fear
“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.” ~ Stephen King, Salem's Lot “Fear is a strange thing,” says...
Michael Kennedy
May 13 min read


Seek. Sense. Share: Turning curiosity into wisdom
Leap of faith: first flight of a baby wood stork I love this simple Seek-Sense-Share model Harold Jarche uses to turn curiosity into...
Michael Kennedy
Apr 173 min read


Big Sur: The Jagged Edge of Heaven
Peregrine Falcon at Point Lobos, Big Sur, CA You won't understand the feeling at first because you've never experienced anything like it....
Michael Kennedy
Feb 274 min read


Behind the Snow
Inside a Palisades Tahoe Snowcat with a veteran groomer Jeff Morrison, Groomer Have you ever wondered what it’s like to ride in a 600...
Michael Kennedy
Feb 34 min read


Sunset Happy Hour at High Camp
Sunset Happy Hour at High Camp delivered more than we expected, including a rare phenomenon: a halo, rainbow-like ring around the...
Michael Kennedy
Jan 203 min read


Why are we here?
“And you may ask yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’” ~ Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime Our beliefs, standards, friendships,...
Michael Kennedy
Jan 73 min read


In Search of Aesthetic Chills
A glimpse of the marvelous Moon Over Headwall Express A man is climbing up Tram Face above Olympic Valley, and as he passes through the...
Michael Kennedy
Dec 29, 20243 min read


From Twig to Titan: The Quiet Wisdom of a Tree
Once I was nothing but a twig. The softest breeze rocked my world. I’ve been stepped on, defiled, and worse, ignored. In winters, I...
Michael Kennedy
Dec 22, 20241 min read


The Silent Language of Books, Sunrises, and Trees
What can a book say? Can it utter a single word? No, not one. And yet, as Carl Sagan marveled, “What an astonishing thing a book is…...
Michael Kennedy
Dec 18, 20242 min read


An Unusual Santa Story
With Glenn W. Turner at his Lake Mary, FL home. Glenn W. Turner was a controversial and charismatic man known as “the harelip son of a...
Michael Kennedy
Dec 15, 20242 min read


Wake the Morning
In his excellent book, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows , John Koenig creates words by using combinations and fragments of Greek words...
Michael Kennedy
Dec 12, 20242 min read


The Quiet Magic of a Sunrise Walk on a Lake Tahoe Pier
A walk on a Lake Tahoe pier, especially at sunrise, inspires a reverence only the natural world can evoke. The imagery of the mountains...
Michael Kennedy
Nov 25, 20242 min read


Season of the Witch
Depending on your point of view, the world around you can seem like a dream or a nightmare worthy of a painter and poet like William...
Michael Kennedy
Oct 28, 20242 min read


Giving Back
Answering the call of generosity In one of his commencement speeches, Kurt Vonnegut said this to the freshly minted graduates: "You will...
Michael Kennedy
Oct 5, 20243 min read


The Story We Tell Ourselves
Sometimes in life the script we’re given no longer fits the story we want to live. Illustration by Maurice Sendak in Robert Graves...
Michael Kennedy
Sep 17, 20242 min read


Teri Smith, My Artist Friend
Teri Smith’s watercolors were featured in Moonshine Ink in November 2023, they caught my eye, and I wanted to see more. This led to a...
Michael Kennedy
Sep 8, 20242 min read


What the Brothers Grimm Got Wrong
"I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell." ~ Walt Whitman The Juniper Tree is a story by the Brothers...
Michael Kennedy
Sep 3, 20242 min read


Pier Pleasure on Lake Tahoe
Seven unforgettable moments on, under, and near the piers of Big Blue You feel a cosmic connection to something other-worldly when you...
Michael Kennedy
Aug 16, 20241 min read


The Lesson of the Juniper Tree
I'm standing on the root of a Juniper Tree, my Journal open under the shade from its heavy, twisted branches stretching in every...
Michael Kennedy
Aug 3, 20243 min read


The Wolf We Draw
A teacher asked his grade-school students to draw a picture of a wolf. Their drawings all had wolves with sharp fangs and sinister eyes....
Michael Kennedy
Jul 24, 20241 min read


To Read or Not to Read
Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are We study and read books not just to gain knowledge and ideas from other people, but to feed...
Michael Kennedy
Jul 13, 20244 min read
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