Posts tagged as "nature" - Chris Hardie

Chris and Kelly with a giant Galapagos Tortoise:

Okay, we're back in Quito for the night, let's try this blog post again. On Thursday morning we met up with Guillermo Valencia a local driver/guide recommended by our hotel.  He did a great job of narrating the landscape of Quito - physical, political and otherwise - as he took us out toward Mindo.  We stopped along the way to stand on the equator (Chris tried to balance an egg on a nail and failed, Kelly successfully verified that water swirls in different directions on different sides of the line,...

Today I was honored to have two different speaking/interviewing events at Earlham College, both about my involvement in community building in Richmond.  In preparing, I returned to an interview that Vine Deloria, Jr. did with The Sun a while back, and was reminded how useful and meaningful his words have been to me in the last decade. I thought I'd share the section of the interview that affected me the most: Q: How does being in one place for a long time teach you who you are? Deloria: If you live...