2024: Desolation Sound - Meeting Friends
I am always a bit sad when our time in the PNW draws to a close. Each visit is amazing. Maybe I feel this way because of the grandeur of the experience. One never knows when or if you will again visit. It is like saying goodbye to an old friend who lives far away, hence there is uncertainty about future time together. The PNW experience invokes strong emotions, feelings and thoughts. It is beautiful in its stature and harmonious in its vastness. It is the kind of emotion that feeds the soul. You do not want it to end. Being in nature reminds you that there is a rhythm to life that is simplifying in that it strips away the unnecessary chaos which waits to assault upon return to “civilization”. Perhaps my reluctance to leave is procrastination. I like the simple rhythm and want to delay the tenseness and harshness that accompanies chaos. Perhaps this all boils down to the fact that I like being on vacation and the sim...