Inside Passages, Inc
Circumference of Home
Kurt Hoelting is a wilderness guide, commercial fisherman, writer and Zen practitioner. He leads meditation-based sea kayaking retreats in Alaska every summer through his company Inside Passages (www.insidepassages.com). He also teaches meditation and yoga to PTSD vets at the VA Hospital in Seattle.
In 2008, after realizing the gaping hole between his convictions about climate change and his own carbon footprint, Kurt embarked on a yearlong experiment to rediscover the heart of his own home by the shores of Puget Sound. He traded in his car and jet travel for a kayak, a bicycle, and his own two feet, traveling a radius of 100 kilometers (62 miles) from his home. In his 2010 book about the experience, entitled The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life, Hoelting writes: “This much is clear to me. If I can’t change my own life in response to the greatest challenge now facing our human family, who can? And if I won’t make the effort to try, why should anyone else? So I’ve decided to start at home, and begin with myself. The question is no longer whether I must respond. The question is whether I can turn my response into an adventure.”
Hoelting lives with his wife Sally Goodwin on Whidbey Island. He is the father of two children, Kristin and Alexander.
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