Fall Newsletter 2020
The Experiment of Lost Borders – By Sara Harris Once upon a time there were two people. Both had big minds, huge souls, and an even bigger hunger that they shared. The desert called their names and they answered. They first took kids over the Sierras at night in a big school bus. There were no…
Transitions – A Letter from Petra Lentz-Snow
Dear Friends with Lost Borders, For a number of years I’ve been the voice behind many of the Lost Borders emails that you’ve received. But this is no longer so. On July 1, I retired from the administration, following my beloved, Joseph (Angelo) Lazenka, into the realm of “have-beens”. Looking back, it’s hard to believe…
How to Prepare for Your Vision Fast Ceremony
Most likely you are reading this because you have signed up for a vision fast. Or maybe you are just flirting with the idea, wondering if this crazy business of fasting for four days and nights, alone in nature, is the right thing for you. “What” you may ask, “is the point of putting oneself…
Summer 2020 – Solidarity
In this time when a health pandemic sits as the backdrop to a mighty upsurge of action and awareness around the centuries of violent oppression of Black, Brown, Indigenous and other People of Color — our hearts and minds are with the grief and anger for the ongoing suffering of marginalized and oppressed people. The…
Spring 2020 – Threshold
Returning from ceremonies in Death Valley in March, a few of our guides walked back into the strange new world of the novel pandemic, all too familiar to us now, six weeks in. Within days the school had to cancel the April Vision Fast, and inform the brave folks, who’s compelling letters of intent had already…
Diversity and Inclusion
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Fall 2019 – The Power of Seeds
The winds of climate change are blowing hard. Fires were burning out of control north, and south of our headquarters in the past two weeks. Many of our friends and some of our guides in threatened areas were evacuated, and our prayers have been with everyone, human and more than human, in the affected areas!…
Summer 2019 – In Celebration of Summer
We are so grateful for a long good spring on the Eastern Side of the Sierra with some rains lingering into late May. Everything is a lot greener than usual and there is still snow in the mountains. It would be hard to believe that we are already at the peak of summer….. well, if…
Winter 2018 – Solstice
Solstice. The Owen’s Valley is cold and quiet. The sun will set at 4:47pm this afternoon, but it will already sink behind the crest of the mighty Sierra Nevada Mountains around 3:30pm and quicken the pace of those still venturing about on the trail. The cold has a way of coming on fast once that…