Leland Dirks

Be grateful for what you have, they tell you. But they never teach you how. In Summer of 2014, Leland was challenged by a number of his friends to list positive things, three each day, for a week. He accepted the challenge, and then realized he liked doing it. He was addicted to gratitude. So he kep ... Read More about

It's 1958. Gas is 25 cents a gallon. The USA has just launched its first satellite into orbit. Elvis Presley has been inducted into the US Army. And a little boy named Buddy has just been born into a black and white world. Twenty-four years later, that boy, now a young man, is left in a coma by a ca ... Read More about

Leland moved from an inner-city neighborhood in Denver to five acres in the eastern part of Colorado's San Luis Valley more than a decade ago. He knew he was moving to a desert and expected only the omnipresent sage. It was a rainy summer when he began building his off-grid home, and as he worked on ... Read More about