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Zeab, a 16-year-old wolf cared for by Mission Wolf. Photograph taken by Kris Tolman It happens. My months of planning and dreaming for a beautiful life-changing retreat in Yellowstone came to a screeching halt. Two weeks ago, I was getting ready for a long road trip to Gardiner, MT to meet with my retreat partner, to finalize the details of our new business venture when his email arrived in my inbox. Life had happened to him. He was having to make some tough decisions and one of them was to...

Photograph taken at Jenny Lake in Grand Teton National Park, October 2025. Recently I have been reading a book about indigenous peoples’ wisdom called, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It begins with an origin story, Skywoman Falling. The story changed my perspective of how I think about the world, my presence in it, and increased my joy and gratitude for my life on this planet. Skywoman Falling tells the story of a woman who fell out of a hole in the Skyworld clutching a bundle of...