Nicholas R. Frazier

Our intimacy with a place is proportional to the speed we move through it. That’s the feeling I get when I run sometimes. There’s a stretch of road near where I live called Lake Dam Road, a long shady hill that sees little traffic.  It’s a connector; at the other end of Lake Dam I [...]

I came across Paul Hawken’s commencement speech to the University of Oregon Class of 2009 this morning.  With Earth Day around the corner, it seemed apropos as a way to step back and think about how our friendship with the Earth is doing. In the same way that some of us have acquired a higher [...]