I think if there were memorable moments for me on this past trip ...it would have to be mornings on Shadow Mountain.....no hustle, no hurry, really no agenda...just muster my self out of the confines of the bag an off the deck of the RMS Ronald Reagan (a camping cot of extra large proportion) if I felt like it...but the pangs of the Grand kind of left me with a state of anxiety....I knew that this range of granite, rock, and glacier ( I think the dr referred that this glacier was more of a ice cube than a glacier) would be evolving into a myriad of colors, textures, hues and provide me a canvas that would be more of solitude, so the anxiety was being able to get myself up and out without missing any of the mountain kaleidoscope.
So with that I stumbled up the double track with camera and camp chair, blanket the g-dog....and the ball...and the stick....and waited for mother nature to perform her magic...once the sun began to crest the horizon on my back side the landscape on my front side evolved, re-evolved every minute or two. I cannot really recall how many frames I shot..But the horizon just seemed to be a steady stream of multi colored hues and textures, almost a 90 minute movie. The clouds billowed, dissipated, and became magenta and gold, lined with blue-black and mauve.
In retrospect I found these moments to have left my mind completely void of thought, of things at home, work, any of life’s demands and the world.
I do believe this was a first for me. One, that none of the day to day necessities ever crossed my mind. Even with my eldest son on his backside from a kidney biopsy (I thought about him, my wife, but never worried, I just had a gut sense all was well)
I don't know why, I would love to be able operate like this daily…
but I know that the process cannot be sustained.
For the world does continue to spin....but for me it never spins in the same direction....I just have to learn how follow regardless of the rotation or just make my own way.
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