Written by Jimmie Burroughs Why am I here? Having a purpose and a calling in life fulfils our purpose for being on earth. Sometimes a calling drives men into some of the oddest and most unusual situations; one such is Richard Proenneke: For more than 30 years Richard Louis “Dick” Proenneke lived alone in the high mountain wilderness of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes. He felt that his calling and purpose in life was to be a naturalist. He constructed by hand his own log cabin, using primitive hand tools and the natural materials available. Over the period of 30 years Proenneke made valuable recordings of both meteorological…