Hello there. I’m Dave.
Welcome to my little corner of the Internet.
Here is where I share my creative writing, essays, and wandering texts.
I caught the creative writing impulse later in life.
An idea for a poem must have been floating around
the universe for awhile before it landed on me.
And since I wrote that first poem,
ideas seem to visit me more frequently.
Today, creative writing is one of
my reasons for getting out of bed in the morning,
my raison d’être,
my ikigai.
My travel (wandering) posts are not how-to texts.
I don’t give you details on how to hike a trail
or tell you what to see in any given travel location.
My writing is more experiential –
impressions, thoughts, feelings, moments, events,
that sort of thing.
I travel. I walk.
Perhaps I take a photo.
I write about it.
Everything I post on this website
is an experiment in the creative process.
If even one piece of writing here encourages you to be creative
(don’t deny it; you certainly can write a better poem than I),
or to think about something differently,
or to head out on your own walk,
or to take off on your own travel adventure,
or to dare you to do something great,
I have met my objective.
I am forever grateful to those who inspire me.
For poetry,
I am particularly drawn to the writing of the Canadian poets,
Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, and Howard White.
And for my walks,
I’m inspired by the great walking creatives –
poets such as William Wordsworth,
philosophers such as Immanuel Kant,
and walking artists such as Hamish Fulton.
I also acknowledge,
with humility and gratitude,
all of the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis,
on whose traditional and unceded lands and waters I travel in Canada.
If you have thoughts or feedback you’d like to share,
please feel free to post a comment on one of the posts
or contact me at DaveGutscher [at] gmail [dot] com.
Live boldly.
Hope our trails cross one day.
Dave