Ode to Mondays | Maple Grove Hot Springs
First Monday of the New Year. That's a tough act right there. As a society, we place a lot of weight on firsts. In our minds, we know...
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Jordan Menzel
Dec 31, 2021
Honor the Losses | Maple Grove Hot Springs
This pandemic is teaching our society a lot. And F#$K the cost of those lessons. Over 800,000 have died in the US alone with 5,340,000...
Jordan Menzel
Dec 30, 2021
Farewell Clint and Michaela | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Transition is in the air. 2021, a year that's felt like sand in our collective fingers, is coming to an end. In its place, a new one...
Jordan Menzel
Dec 22, 2021
Singing in the Winter Solstice | Maple Grove Hot Springs
With the Winter solstice behind us, so, too, are the darkest days of the Season. Today, light steals us back seconds at a time. Then...
Jordan Menzel
Dec 18, 2021
Shoutout to Cash | Maple Grove Hot Springs
4 months ago, a software developer on the road reached out. He had visited us as a guest and felt drawn to return and lend a hand. ...
Jordan Menzel
Dec 14, 2021
Be Well Wim Hof Experience Winter 2021 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
We are animals. It's time we start acting like it. What do you get when you combine a guitar player, an ice-cold river, 20 screaming...
Jordan Menzel
Dec 1, 2021
New Year's Day 2021 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
It's amazing how the arrival of one day can make Humans across the planet feel, just for a moment, like everything has the power to...
Jordan Menzel
Nov 22, 2021
Honoring the History of the Land | Maple Grove Hot Springs
For thousands of years, Mother Nature has sent up a cold weather signal from this very spot. The swans arrive, the turkeys gather, and...
Jordan Menzel
Nov 22, 2021
Boa Ogoi Cultural Center Fundraiser | Maple Grove Hot Springs
When experiences bubble up out here, we’ve noticed that it almost feels irreverent to document them in the moment. With each wild,...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 28, 2021
Shoutout to Jennifer | Maple Grove Hot Springs
In a way, nearly everything in a land-based endeavor is seasonal. The weather, the phases of growth, the projects, the needs, and,...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 28, 2021
Silence After Sundown | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Our culture has an uncomfortable relationship with silence. When the Maple of old closed for business, it stood still, in utter...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 21, 2021
Sound Bath and Dancing | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Everything comes down to what we do when we hear the music start to play... Somewhere between childhood, adolescence, teenhood, and...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 10, 2021
Indigenous Peoples Day 2021 | Maple Grove Hot Springs
Lessons From the Shoshone Indigenous People's Day. A day that speaks to the soul of our land and now our very business. You see, long...
Jordan Menzel
Oct 4, 2021
How to Digitally Detox at Maple Grove Hot Springs
Our planet needs more than six hours to detox digitally. Smartphones and social media feel less natural by the day. The obvious sense of...
Jordan Menzel
Sep 11, 2021
Radical Leaps of Faith | Maple Grove Hot Springs
A Sunday thought on radical leaps of faith. Today, we welcome up a small yoga retreat, who, like the many diverse groups who gather on...
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