Photo moment

Here is a link to photos from our Grande Canyone Expedition. My calves are still a bit sore.

Think/Feel/Do

Right now, we don't really have internet access at home, except for on those rare occasions that I can pick up a weak signal from our neighbors' unprotected wireless router (guess what it's named? Yes, that's right.). It is changing my life quite a bit because it means I can't spend those extra moments in the morning surfing the 'net and I won't get messages from Teh Internets until I go in to school. But I think it's actually a good thing because it means I can spend more time thinking without creating interruptions for myself. On the other hand, the space and time when I used to blog the most no longer exists in the gap between eating breakfast and heading in to school. So no promises on how blogging will change.

But that's all in the way of a lengthy preamble, because here's the subject that has been occupying my mind again of late: death. Just recently, the brother-in-law of one good friend died, and the faithful doggy companion of another had to be put to sleep. Major hikes through national parks also always conjure back up thoughts of Zachary's death, now almost three years ago, but never an easy subject. It's always hard to know what to say and do when such thoughts arise because although we are surrounded by death and dying things we often at best have only slant-ways approaches to talking about the subject. It exposes the raw edges of our human-ness and our inability to know everything and do everything. And then I think, but I must somehow continue on with this work, to see what it becomes in all its forms and expressions.

And I guess that's all I have to say for now.