Making a Lasting Impression By Leaving No Impression

Like most kids from suburban New Jersey, I grew up disconnected from the earth compared to the Native Americans that I’m learning to live like today. But I was not completely disconnected; I loved to be outside and despised video games. I would spend a lot of time “suburban canoeing” in polluted rivers and “party bagging” on the Vineyard during the summer. We would forage for bags of beer cans and redeem them for money at Our Market. The natural hunter-gatherer inside me was itching for the natural world and I didn’t even know it!