Posts by Jake Norton
It’s Not Simple

In “The Gulag Archipelago,” Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote:

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

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The Trip Takes Us

It seemed like a great idea at the start.

As Wende and I sat at home in Colorado, reflecting on the simplicity and joy we all found while doing nothing and everything on a beach in a bay in the middle of nowhere, Colombia, we realized that we had, in a matter of days, lost that joy. We had been sucked, unwittingly and unknowingly, back into the vortex of life, the bewildering swirl of to-do’s and must-do’s, of should haves and would haves and could haves, of schedules to keep and benchmarks to meet and little, if any, joy to be found. Yet here we had everything one could want – a nice house, a couple of cars, cute kids and a dog, a yard, and two jobs – but the place we pined for had so much more with so much less.

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Hi, I'm Jake

Hi, I’m Jake. I wear a bunch of hats – climber, photographer, filmmaker, etc. – but most importantly I’m a husband and a dad, and on some days I think I do an OK job at those.

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