A story must be told or there’ll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Book Review: Bandersnatch
“I’d like to be a fly on the wall for that conversation!”
Sometimes we say it from sheer curiosity and sometimes we say it with questionable motives, but we’re almost always searching for an insider’s perspective.
In January 2013, I sat steps away from the Rabbit Room inside The Eagle and Child pub, located few blocks from Oxford University’s city center. Over a bite of forgettable English pub food, I imagined what it might’ve been like in the mid-to-late 1930s to find a seat during the lunch rush on a run-of-the-mill Tuesday near enough to eavesdrop on the friendly banter escaping from the now-infamous Rabbit Room, which played host to the creative collective we call “the Inklings.”
Gear Review: Jaybird Run
A few years ago, for Father's day, my lovely wife purchased Jaybird Audio's Run XT, and gift wrapped it for one of my most used gifts to date. Whether on a run, bike ride, or my morning commute, you will see these Bluetooth pearls in my ears every day.
Book Review: Adorning the Dark
Adorning the Dark, by Andrew Peterson is a breath of fresh air for creatives or people yearning to be creative. Page after page, Andrew describes his personal journey from the adventures of a young boy growing up in Florida to the wildly popular Behold the Lamb of God tour, the community he’s built along the way, and new his adventures at the Warren outside of Nashville.
Merely The Beginning
The Storied Outdoors offers us an opportunity to write, be creative, and do what we can to interject beauty into the world in which we live. As we say, "find clarity in the stories we tell and the adventures that shape us."