Nic QuilterA Free Write on StoneWhile sitting next to a small creek before sunset, I wrote this as an exercise included in the Anasazi Foundation’s cirriculum. The prompt…Jul 6, 2022Jul 6, 2022
Nic QuilterLemonsa note after editing: my writing is not very argumentative. I don’t always have a “point” by the end, I hope more than anything to be…Jan 25, 2021Jan 25, 2021
Nic QuilterA Short Sunday ThoughtOne of my favorite things in the world is mint tea. The stuff you buy at the store is good, but a tea made from fresh leaves plucked from…Aug 23, 2020Aug 23, 2020
Nic QuilterA Sacred Piece of CakeI’m sitting here at my kitchen table with what feels like the weight of the world on my shoulders. I am unwisely, and indulgently, looking…Jul 1, 2020Jul 1, 2020
Nic QuilterClimbing Trees, and Other Things You’re not Supposed to Do.“Hey man, how’s being in a tree going to help you get home?”Jan 9, 2020Jan 9, 2020
Nic QuilterA Rant Worth RantingI can trace my heart breaks back to small moments. A thread that characterizes the depth of a tapestry heavy and blunt enough to threaten…Jun 20, 2019Jun 20, 2019
Nic QuilterThe Best Prescription I’ve Been GivenBack in 2015 I’d recently closed a chapter of my life I’d label as emotionally tumultuous. A lot of young men and women of my faith…Oct 5, 2018Oct 5, 2018
Nic QuilterWhy Flowers Grow on the Side of the Road2 years ago in May, while on my training shift for my first wilderness therapy job, I walked with a “willow walker” to go and find some…Mar 24, 2018Mar 24, 2018