Away We Go: Time Zones
There’s someone across the globe who is opening their eyes to the day as I’m closing my book. Maybe there’s someone out there taking their last breath as I lean over my knees winded from a set of sprints. Maybe there’s someone who feels exactly the same way I do even though it’s 3 am for them. To slide myself into the perspective of someone in a different time is a momentary relief from the rigid set of self-imposed expectations.
Up the Water Spout
The rock I just spent an hour observing as not so bad, not too steep - now it is pretty bad and the pitch is quite steep.
Navigational Uncertainty
Which is a nice way of saying “lost.” Not for long and with no real consequence, but enough to give the guts a drop.
Desert Avocados
Every bite she would look up and study the pictures. Bite, look, bite, contemplate, until the shell was empty. After a week of camping in the desert, the sight of this was refreshing. I'm uncertain why.