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 Goduntil 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.”
Finished Reading: Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban 📚
“…sketching a fantastic future for the land, with an Olympian disregard for what was actually here.”
We watched John Wayne’s McLintock no less than 100x on VHS growing up. It’s not Montana, but this scene kept coming back to mind.
Dabbling together • Idaho Falls, August 2021
Corbet’s Cabin/Top of the World Waffles • Yes, waffles do taste even better at 10,450 feet above sea level. It’s science 🤓
No lift here. Just take off ya skis ‘n walk, bub.
Rendezvous Mountain • Can see a whole lot of mountains from up here
