Kevin J. Harrang

Hoping this year’s missive finds you and yours flourishing, we send our gratitude (and envy) for all who managed to send us more timely holiday wishes than this—thank you! Some news, thoughts, reflections, and hopes (and photos!) below, enough to tax anyone’s attention span. If you feel so moved, please

(In Harrang family lore, the first ever century ride of 100 miles, undertaken and repeated from La Pine, Oregon to Summer Lake Hot Springs, was nicknamed “Bike the Big One.” And so, this 42 mile ride is referred to as “Bike the Little One,” even though technically more “medium” in

“All travel should be thought of as reconnaissance for one’s next return trip there.” —Anonymous After a fun filled weekend of Shakespeare, fine dining, and pickleball (not always in that order) in Ashland, Oregon, Ann and I hiked a good ways up Mt. McLoughlin. Some quick notes follow. Getting ThereFrom

Note: this is the first of an occasional series of posts prompted by news events, often things I’m trying to figure out. (If you’re reading this post in an email, click here to for a better view in your browser.) In The News: The Second-Biggest Bank Failure [Silicon Valley Bank]

Happily, reports that the world would end this year have proven exaggerated (although it should be pointed out that this largely depends on where you are on the planet at the moment).  So, it is with gratitude for dodging calamity another trip around the sun (excluding the water heater incident…)

“You shouldn’t go up on the roof anymore,” she says “And for that matter, you shouldn’t climb a ladder at your age,” she adds This makes sense Especially since we can afford to hire people to do anything They will show up in their van with all the equipment strapped

This year finds me feeling an odd combination of joy and gratitude for simply breathing another day on this Earth, and some considerable despair of those breaths witnessing the seeming unraveling of the world around us. Perhaps “gratispair“? Alas, but perhaps even the darker face of this two-sided coin is

Trip Report/ Day Hike If there were an award for the most accessible, scenic, and enjoyable day hike in the Pacific Northwest, the winner hands-down would be Burroughs Mountain. With the luxury of doing this on a weekday, Ann and I met up with our friend Jim Burroughs (fittingly…) in

Lately I’ve been trying out “mindfulness” training, mostly consisting of a daily guided meditation, plus some recorded lectures. All of this from the “Waking Up” app by Sam Harris. One of the points of this teaching is to notice how many of one’s actions during the day are mere reactions,