Come Walk with Me

One extra loop. One unexpected turn. And suddenly, my familiar old hiking trail was completely enchanted. Come walk with me... I’m beginning to think there may be a little magic happening in these Santa Cruz Mountains. Yesterday, Ghost and I were finishing our hike. We wanted to take just another quarter mile to reach our two-mile goal, so we took one extra loop. We came around a corner… And there was a man standing on top of a huge boulder, waving an enormous bubble wand and

When Jim and I celebrated our tenth anniversary, twenty-six years ago, we did something a little unusual. We put a big flip chart up on our cruise cabin wall and planned the next ten years of our lives... Come walk with me... Some dreams begin with a single wish. Others quietly grow for decades. As I looked through old photographs this week, I realized these three little redwoods weren't just trees. They had been standing beside one of the biggest dreams Jim and I ever share

Some places don't need words. They simply welcome us back. Maybe that's why I keep returning to these trails. Every visit reminds me that a little quiet can go a long way. Visit www.ThankU.io for the full story. #ThankU.io #Grateful #SantaCruzMountains Grateful for the places that ask nothing from us except that we arrive, I smiled when I saw someone quietly sitting beneath the trees. We never spoke, but I understood exactly why she had come. Some mornings the mountain gr