by Ashley Carrithers | Aug 1, 2013 | Ashley Carrithers, Ashley's Adventures in Wilderland, Blogs
I say that we were given two inalienable birth rights; one is Free Choice, and the other is Freedom. There is an obvious caveat to the Free Choice piece which needs to include the concept of harmlessness. You, reader, like that for yourself – agreed? I sure do and...
by Ashley Carrithers | Aug 1, 2013 | Ashley Carrithers, Ashley's Adventures in Wilderland, Blogs
I don’t know how you feel about “dating” – of course I don’t, as I barely know how I feel about it! I am on my way to Denver for an overnight stop on route to Buenos Aires. Darling daughter, Julianna, introduced me to her friend and mentor via a series of emails and a...
by Ashley Carrithers | Aug 1, 2013 | Ashley Carrithers, Ashley's Adventures in Wilderland, Blogs
Think about how we love love love our newborns. There may not be a purer love on any planet – an unconditional love that shines forth making us so very glad to be alive. Friends, I have just deleted some sentences I was struggling with regarding our ignorance in...
by Ashley Carrithers | Aug 1, 2013 | Ashley's Adventures in Wilderland
We live in the deep country and oftimes our experiences run to great and interesting and, sometimes, challenging depths. Good. The summer lands run all the way to the wandering, jagged, high Andes border with Chile. These snaggle toothed peaks constantly comb the...
by Ashley Carrithers | Aug 1, 2013 | Ashley Carrithers, Ashley's Adventures in Wilderland, Blogs
Childhood casts a sweet shadow which happily plays, deep in some corner of cerebral cortex, beckoning with pudgy fingers festooned with Earth’s clean dirt, for the adulting mind to come back – to return for respite from the demands of peers persistent pressure to...
by Ashley Carrithers | Aug 1, 2013 | Ashley Carrithers, Ashley's Adventures in Wilderland, Blogs
Watched the second Wall Street movie, the Gordon Gekko gets out of jail for extreme insider trading etc, repenting his greed of yore and tearfully wins back his daughter, only to steal $100,000,000 from her. Ok – he had set up the account in heydays, but still … The...