Bridger Bowl • Powderiest pow pow day ever

“Does this angle make my nose look big?”

I am a liberal—firmly liberal.

Jonathan Raban, Richard Wilbur, and Christian Wiman—a thought on what was missing in Raban’s Bad Land 📚

“I’ll be waiting right here by the stairs whenever you decide it’s time to go to the dog park.”

Finished Reading: Every Riven Thing by Christian Wiman 📚

For I am come a whirlwind of wasted things
and I will ride this tantrum back to God

until my fixed self, my fluorescent self
my grief-nibbling, unbewildered, wall-to-wall self
withers in me like a salted slug

Sunrise hike to Lava Lake

New cataracts under the portico in Maban, South Sudan (January 2020) • You should see them dance when the bandage comes off. Some friends just got back from another surgical mission—375 cataracts replaced last week in Mankien

Shiny day

Reread Annie Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels” this afternoon. So good. Living: “choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.”