I will post later, maybe tonight or in a few days, about my birthday weekend.

Topics to be covered:
Driving.
Roads closed.
Yosemite.
Tunnels.
More tunnels.
Woopsie, tunnels again.
Unexpected route changes and the places we didn't intend to go.
Snow.
Sleep: getting it and not.
Schneiders.
1400 miles.
Mountains.
Volcanoes.
My beloved little Jeep.
Deserts.
Canyons.
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This weekend, I go to meet the most ancient, most saturated, most tangible, most real embodiment of Life that lives.

I go to meet God.

One person will go with me.

I am amazed at my trust, to permit - even want - him to stand next to me as I present myself before my God.

I am terrified, and I cannot wait.

I had a dream last night....

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The buildings and landscape are bathed in gold from the setting sun.

We stand in the canopy of tall, spiky trees, marveling over their palmate leaves, the remnants of seed pods, their protective spines scattered like chocolate chips on their branches.  We extract the fluff and seeds from one pod; the seeds will not grow ( Read more... )

As I was driving to work today, I thought of a few things that I'm really glad I don't take for granted, and realized there are some things that I do kinda forget to appreciate.  I've decided to list these things, just as a sort of a reminder to myself.  This particular list is restricted to the things I experience on my way to work.

Things I see:

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The new cereal we have at work looks like cat food. It tastes okay, though. I wish we had bran flakes. Ohwell.

I want to go see the Bristlecone Pines. These are trees capable of attaining more than 4000 years of life.