My Thoreau-ly Walden-esque Experiment: Is This Lifestyle Sustainable?

Is Nature’s Guys nature-focused lifestyle sustainable? It is a question I’ve asked myself a lot, perhaps no more than yesterday when, with an allergy-induced fever, I worked myself into a sweat clearing away privet bushes, planting an elderberry plant and a yellow squash by the creek, cleaned out the ditch of old, disgarded tires; and […]

Life And Death — It Happens. Sadly.

Today, in a single, natural life and death moment, I rediscovered the phrase “To Kill A Mockingbird.” It’s spring. Birds aren’t known for paying attention when they’re in love. So it was, evidently, with the mockingbird that jumped into the path of my ragtop today. I didn’t even hear a thunk, but looking in my […]

Getting ready for wildflowers and pollinators -- Glowing goldenrods, flooded by the West Chickamauga Creek, April 2018, taken from Nature's Guy kayak

What To Do? Does It Matter? Just DO!

What should I do today? Do you ever ask yourself: Does it matter what I do? What should I do? When I made the decision to live a “Nature’s Guy” type of life, I don’t think I knew what I was getting myself into! There is SO MUCH to do! So much to experience! So […]

What Is Your Next Priority Project?

Gene Jr. had these thoughts, on “What is your next priority project?” We should always have a list of projects to be done. Following inspiration and that little voice inside, we can put these projects in priority order of when they need to be completed. Sometimes, the order gets rearranged, as we learn new things. […]