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Stories from wilderness seasons and ordinary days.

Take a moment

to wander

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I Go Up To The North

To Feel Small 

There are wild horses out on the lake today ...​

Explore this reflection

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Child Leaving

​They've left so many times before, this child of mine. Off to take ...​

Step into the quiet

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A Well-Spent Day

​​He walks with You.

He finds you

on the shore...

Worthwhile reading​​

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Stars Lost to City Lights

Like mist our sense of thanks can drift away ...

Read this reflection

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Spring Wait

It is becoming unsafe out on the ice today ... 

Learn more

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Surprised as if by Magic

Sigurd Olson, in his book The Singing Wilderness, refers to delight as ...

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Wild Flowers

It is the thick of summer. The wildflowerw are celebrating ...

Enjoy more

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​The Quiet Poetry

of Grief

It is a draining of the heart, forgotten poetry

that lingers ...

Step into the quiet​

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In the Distance

the Thunder 

​But the mosquitoes are swarming ...

Read the reflection

About John Bragstad

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"A former canoe guide in the BWCAW and Canada, John knows the outdoors intimately.

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In addition, he spent 25 years as a marriage counselor, and he offers sage, safe, common-sense advice on how to maneuver through troubled waters."

Brian Larsen, Cook County News-Herald

"We do not read poetry

to escape life but to enter

it more fully."

From the North Shore of Lake Superior—Nature's Gentle Wisdom

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