Early in July Kyle, Little Kyle Kenneth, Chuck, Dan, Wes, and I ventured out to North Manitou Island for a backpacking trip. North Manitou Island is a 11 miles out into Lake Michigan off the Lelanau Peninsula. The Lelanau Peninsula is the pinky of Michigan. Monday was a difficult day but that’s a story for […]
Goose Attack!
A Classic Re-post from 2004 https://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk324/cran83/moon-pictures-2.jpg I have always loved Canada Geese. I think they are beautiful birds. I love to stand outside on a cool autumn evening and listen to them honk by low overhead. I love to see their silhouette pass before an autumn moon. I’m not sure geese feel the same way […]
Pulling off An Adventure
A Classic Re-post from 2002 If all has gone well we will be completing our 2013 North Manitou Manly Man Revival by the time you read this and we will be heading back downstate with stories to tell. A few weeks ago I noticed that half of my son’ summer college break was over. Sitting […]
A Promised Steak
A Classic Re-post from 2009 To portage and to paddle thorough the Canadian wilderness is incredibly beautiful and rigorous. If you haven’t tried it you really should, just because there are some beautiful places that you have to paddle for many miles to reach. Having paddled and carried your canoe and food and tent and […]
Manly Man Manitou Revival
This week the Pierpont men are preparing for an adventure. It’s been years since we have visited North Manitou Island. Kyle, Chuk and I went with Manitou Mike Otis back in about 2002. Daniel and Wesley have never been on the Island. Kyle and Oliver weren’t even born the last time we ventured out on […]
Breakfast with Jesus
There is a graceful scene painted toward the end of John’s Gospel I love to contemplate. Peter has repeatedly and publicly denied Jesus. Peter had trouble with the idea that Jesus would have to suffer. Resisting the idea earned had him a rebuke at Caesarea Philippi. He just couldn’t get his mind around the idea […]