I told theMan that I didn’t want to make a big deal out of Valentine’s Day. While I enjoy giving and receive tokens of appreciation, I don’t feel that what this “hallmark holiday” advocates is what love is all about. Rather than flowers and chocolates, I’d rather spend time with the one I love, receive a compliment or two, or sing along with him as he plays his guitar and harmonica.
Seaside Sunset
Ever since the first of the year, theMan and I have been trying to make it out to the coast to walk along the ocean’s edge at sunset. After weeks of talking about it, we finally made it.
barking up the wrong tree
Sometimes I feel like a dog who has chased a squirrel up a tree. I sit at the base, barking, and waiting patiently for it to come down. But of course it will not for it has jumped to another tree and made a mad escape long ago.
I don’t understand why the squirrel doesn’t come down.
While waiting, I grow tired and weary. I fall asleep and begin dreaming…
didgeridoo, i sure do love you
So now come sit down
Will you talk with me now
And let me see through your eyes
Where there is so much light
We are biding our time
For these myths to unwind
For these changes we will confront
So please be aware with every
Place that you herald
And look to your soul
For these things that you know
For the trees that we see
Cannot forever breathe
With the changes they will confront
CHORUS:
You know some people they just won’t understand
No, they just won’t understand
These things
Thank you for your message but I don’t understand
No they just won’t understand
These things
Independence Day at Rae Lake: Day 3
I can’t tell you how nice it is to be traveling through the backcountry as we are. It’s just theMAN and me now. Our compadres, suffering from a blown out knee and impending illness, were forced to turn back on Day 2.
Each of us, have found our own groove and travel down the trail at our own pace. It works well for us. As in life, I find that it is good to give the space that you need to another. In this way, you both can get what you need be it a photo, a pee stop, or powering up the mountain to play in the snow.
At camp, we each find a lakeside spot to write down our reflections of the day, meditate, nap, or practice our yoga — then come together, each more whole than before, to share in our independence as well as our togetherness. It is the 4th of July but there are no fireworks in the sky. Instead, the sky is lit up with a nearly full moon and tiny little stars scattered as far as the eye can see.
As for the hike, we hit 10,000 feet elevation today. Along the way, there was beautiful around every turn.