Terri Kalloch
Bio
I love writing, walking in the woods, smelling the pine trees and playing with my two rambunctious dogs. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Stories (7/0)
The Police
A Broken System As a result of the violent murder of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer, we have heard cries to defund the police and even to abolish the police all together. Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, supports reforming the police department with an over site board, new training and investment in community resources, but these are mere band aids for a much larger, deeply broken criminal justice system of which the police are only one part.
By Terri Kalloch4 years ago in The Swamp
The Story of the Stones
The sign at the trail head barely even mentions the Native Americans who inhabited this area on the Hieroglyphic Trail, named for the petroglyphs that can’t be missed at the top of the trail. These rocks tell a story of a time when people in the area knew they were interconnected to the animals that shared the same land.
By Terri Kalloch4 years ago in Poets
Depriving Our Children
I took my nieces on a camping trip to Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona, Arizona last weekend. They rarely have the opportunity to get out of the city and I want to expose them to nature as much as possible in the hope that they will grow to appreciate the natural world.
By Terri Kalloch4 years ago in Families
Getting Back on a Horse
I just read a blog by a woman a little younger than I am, but middle-aged nonetheless, who wrote about the courage it took her to go back to school at her age and to follow her dreams. While I respect how challenging it was to her, it seemed sad to me that something so common place should take so much courage and that she would feel so much resistance in her path. I know that such obstacles exist, especially for many women, whose dreams get pushed aside for more important things, like raising a family.
By Terri Kalloch4 years ago in Motivation
As Unstoppable As Stars
Known as the father of Environmentalism and the founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir said about his childhood in Scotland, “With red-blooded playmates, wild as myself, I loved to wonder in the fields to hear the birds sing, and along the seashore to gaze and wonder at the shells and seaweeds, eels and crabs in the pools among the rocks when the tide was low; and best of all to watch the waves in awful storms thundering on the black headlands and craggy ruins of the old Dunbar Castle when the sea and the sky, the waves and the clouds, were mingled together as one.”
By Terri Kalloch4 years ago in Motivation
Gratitude
I recently saw a quote on Facebook that stopped me in my tracks. It said, “Remember when you wanted what you have now.” In a society always trying to sell us something to improve our lives, rarely do we stop to appreciate what we have. We are trained with an eye toward progress. There must always be something better than what we have now. We spend all our lives living for the future and forget to notice the benefits of the journey toward that golden future.
By Terri Kalloch4 years ago in Motivation
