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Go to the Woods, by Tim Corcoran

Old Growth Forest, Santa Cruz, California

Go to the woods
Sit by a tree.
Climb the tree.
See the land as the tree see's it ...

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Tim Corcoran

Santa Cruz and the Central Coast

As a young child, Tim Corcoran developed a deep connection to the land and sea throughout California's central coast. The central coast was his playground. At the age of twelve, he conceived the idea of an art book that would celebrate and give thanks to the region that was such an important source of his inspiration.

Santa Cruz and the Central Coast is the realization of this idea - a realization of a dream. Tim hopes that it will inspire others to seek out the the beauty in the regions that they live, so that they, too, will be inspired to protect and save the land.

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Tim Corcoran

We Remember

At Headwaters we remember how we humans were meant to live with; fun, art, friends, community, nature, purpose greater than ourselves, good working brain, creativity, healthy food, dogs, hard physical work, clean water, being heard, spirituality-no dogma-just feeling it, campfires, birds, squirrels, animals everywhere, tree sitting and climbing, elders, teaching, Mt. Shasta, creeks, flowers and so much more.

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Waiting

It's a difficult time for our planet. We're not sure what to do or how. We often wait for a hero to show up and save the day. Look at you're reflection in a pool of water. There you'll find the hero. The time is now. Your time is now. The planet needs you. We wait and wait for help to come and all along it's been right in front of us. It's us, the humans. All that needs to be done is within us. We have what we need.

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Headwaters Updates from Tim

What a year we had in 2012. Our year at Headwaters ended with a massive snow storm for 5 days. This equaled lots of digging, plowing and tractor work, and of course beauty beyond description. Mt. Shasta is quite simply glowing like a massive crystal.

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2012 Newsletter

We have not only survived 2012, we have thrived.

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The Wandering Quest-ion

Join Donna Brickwood and Lou Ponig this October for a unique class where you will learn to use the art of wandering in the purity of nature to quest for answers, deeper meanings and direction on your life path.

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Interview with Tim on JPR

Tim Corcoran, Founder Headwaters Outdoor School

Tim Corcoran first ventured into the woods as a young boy, and at 17, he spent months alone surviving and honing his skills in the Canadian wilderness. Corcoran, who founded the Headwaters Outdoor School in Mount Shasta, recounts the effects of nature on his personal development in his memoir "Growing Up with a Soul Full of Nature."

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Tim Corcoran

Starting the New Year at Headwaters Outdoor School

I'm sitting here by our pond at Headwaters Outdoor School. It’s January 3rd, 2012 and this is going to be the first of many blogs that I'm going to be adding to our website. The land right now is incredibly beautiful. All around me the sun is shining down upon the water, the trees, and the grass, and I look around and I realize that my dream from my childhood came true. This land I dreamed of since I was nine years old, this land I dreamed of my whole childhood, this land I never knew how I would get it, in fact this land I thought was in Alaska or Canada when I was young.

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Tim's book signings and talks

Tim Corcoran will be promoting his newly released book, "Growing up with a Soul Full of Nature" in a series of book signings and lectures.

Tim will be doing a radio interview on Jefferson Public Radio Thursday, January 12th, 2012, from 9:00-10:00 a.m. followed that evening by a book signing and talk at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, Oregon from 7:00 p.m. -8:15 p.m. Tim will be talking about his adventures of growing up in nature and how it has inspired his life's work, bringing people back home to nature.