Take A Hike

It’s coming on Christmas They’re cutting down trees They’re putting up reindeer And singing songs of joy and peace Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on Join us on the trail this week with River by Joni Mitchell. 

During this season of reflection and gratitude, we are bundling up and getting on the trail with Pulitzer Prize nominated poet, writer, and academic Elizabeth Alexander and her poem Praise Song for the Day.

This week, enjoy nature through the eyes of a child and read I’ve Been Working So Hard by beloved children’s writer Shel Silverstein.

We are embracing the healing power of time in nature this week with writer Wendell Berry. Read The Peace of Wild Things and “for a time…rest in the grace of the world,” and be free.

Embrace the changing of the seasons with some thoughts from former UN Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dag Hammarskjold, translated from Swedish by Leif Sjoberg and W.H. Auden. Vägmärken or Markings, is the journal where Hammarskjold collected his thoughts beginning in 1925 when he was 20 years old. This journal was discovered in…

IHC board members Dr. Mac Test and Dr. Bob Reinhardt from Boise State University both share this poem as a favorite!  Layer up for an early morning hike, or layer down for an afternoon walk, and enjoy Wild Geese by Mary Oliver.

September is here, students are back to school, and it is harvest season. This week we are reading Behavior in Crisis by Ruth Mota. Behavior in Crisis by Ruth Mota

This week we start to say farewell to summer with Summer’s End by Grammy winner, singer-songwriter John Prine.

We are enjoying the return of Jaialdi to Boise this week by hitting the trail with Basque writer Jose Mari Iparragirre.

Beat the heat by getting outdoors with contemporary poet Jane Hirshfield.