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In August 2020, our mountain changed overnight. Three days later we were evacuated with four unhappy cats, two dogs, and no idea what we'd find when we came home. Come walk with me... Nature has a remarkable way of reminding us that what looks like an ending may not be the whole story. After the CZU Lightning Complex Fire, I expected to mourn the loss of one of my favorite places. Instead, I found hope quietly sprouting from blackened trunks. That discovery became the final

More than twenty years ago, I rounded a bend on a little dirt road leading to the Jikoji Zen Buddhist Retreat and met the biggest madrone tree I had ever seen. Come walk with me... Sometimes we don't realize we've made a lifelong friend until we've been visiting them for twenty years. This old madrone has watched me hurry past on countless hikes to the Jikoji Zen Center. Looking through old photographs, I realized she wasn't simply changing. She had quietly been teaching 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