February Field Notes: Tracing the Missing in America’s Parks At GeoFields, we believe every trail tells a story — and some stories are still unfinished. This year, we’ve launched an ongoing project to create the most detailed, publicly accessible record of all missing persons cases in America’s national and state parks. It’s a living archive meant to raise awareness, preserve memory, and, where possible, help bring answers to those still searching. These cases are stark reminders that even the most prepared can be caught off guard by nature’s unpredictability. As we continue to expand our missing persons database, we invite you to share stories, photographs, and memories. Together, we can honor those who’ve vanished and help ensure future adventurers return home.

In the PNW it’s really easy to get seasonal depressive disorder. Especially if you’re like me and lived your whole adulthood in the southwest.!

Have you ever stopped in your tracks for a pink sky? It feels like a gift. A quiet moment of magic. The world softens. The usual blue expanse transforms. It becomes a canvas of peach, rose, and coral.

Look up. That vast, serene blue is a daily miracle. It feels constant and quiet. But it is a vibrant story of light playing with air. The blue sky is sunlight’s secret dance.

It’s kind of the old “chicken and egg” saying, just about why instead of how. Most of the things I right are a bit more serious I think. This was just fun to write, and I enjoy the concept. Hope you do too.

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This short piece reflects on one's struggle to balance belief of want and need, and his inescapable lack of allowing his own capabilities. Possible TW

Here’s a 100‑word title crafted to feel like a full, expressive headline while still functioning as a single “title” as you requested: The Quiet Magic of Moss: Exploring How One of Earth’s Oldest, Softest, and Most Overlooked Plants Has Survived for Hundreds of Millions of Years by Thriving in Shadows, Reviving After Droughts, Building Tiny Hidden Ecosystems, Supporting Micro‑Life, Teaching Us About Resilience, and Proving That Even the Smallest, Most Unassuming Green Carpet Growing on Rocks, Logs, and Forgotten Corners of the World Can Hold Extraordinary Power, Ancient Wisdom, and a Gentle Reminder That Strength Doesn’t Always Need to Be Loud or Tall to Shape the Environment Around It

Maybe they were right? Could it be the phone? Stop and look around, and you might just see how fast life can go. What did you miss?

The door represents our urge to feel and know what once was, our memories. And how it pulls us in to it's grasp, and we don't look back.

An insight into my brain about human interaction and how I feel about it most days. And what I feel I would want to say to people, or- rather what I say to myself in my head.

How far my fondness goes for humanity, and how society has treated me so far, and how I've experienced/felt so far.

Rainbow photo over marbella concha mountain. Picture taken December 29th, 2025 from the sea in front of puerto banus.

Raised poor in Alabama,I grew up in darkness--literally and emotionally.Lights cut off,chaos at the door,gunshots hitting the ground while we were still kids.But in between the fear,there was joy:a mean rooster,fig trees,a dog named Pup Pup and laughter that keeps us alive.The struggle didn't break me--it built me.

Gender neutral bathrooms exist In the home and public and it a step in the right direction 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ

The new year is upon the horizon upcoming. And the next step in the process of making a living is a plan or organization in spontaneity. But the new year will not include a lot of time spent on a new person or group of activities that are more than just a couple of weeks of work for each person of the opposings to peace and advancement.

This is a short story of love and growth. A young boy falls for a girl, as they always do, before life comes and takes its toll. Be sure to share your thoughts.

Hi I am sure there reasonabilities that the whole story line of the worlds and environment is not really exciting but I am not looking for excitement though the whole planet is speeding ahead without much getting done to either please atheists or believers and other people who don't care about what they're supposed to have.

I’m Joyashri or Joy for short as long as I can remember and the reason I exist is because I make sense. And I make sense in the oldest of times and the most modern day way also. I was a nonbeliever always since my childhood but I became an atheist just when I turned 38 years old in Las Vegas Nevada state but worldly throughout the globe. Now I’m 44 years old and finally living on my own. I finally also got interested in having a job recently but haven’t had a job since I graduated from college in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in finance and public relations.

We do not take time to see the world we live in. Maybe it’s time we start to enjoy what we have before it’s too late.