Interesting Times

What is that Chinese proverb or curse: "May you live in interesting times?"  Wow.  In a world that sends information at speeds faster than cars driving across the Bonneville Salt Flats, those "interesting times" give whiplash when they crash.  Oil up then down,  the stock market losing enormous value, Russia invading Georgia...it's mind boggling.

For me, calm comes from the short walks with the "girls."  Or coming downstairs and hearing them snoring while I let my jaw drop reading headlines early in the morning.  Or simply sitting on a boulder looking at this view.  These mountains, they have been here a long time and will be here long, long after I am gone.  The river, the mountains, the pines.  Life echos off the granite, rolls down the canyon, pours into the creek.  

On Saturday, we watched the sun grace the mountain late in the early evening, then slowly walked back to our car, quiet, reflective.  We live in interesting times.  This mountain, these forests, even "the girls," have witnessed a lot.  Each day is important, monumental in how we help each other make it through these times.  

Murphy's day.