Big Summer

It's been a grand, busy week. It has been one of those weeks where memories of any one of the days would have been enough to make the summer great, and yet somehow these amazing days all showed up together in one week, with one super-duper-duper day.

So much of my life has been wasted on things that don't mean anything. Obviously family is never a waste, so that time is covered. After that, career? I provided for my family, I made people laugh for a while and helped entertain them and helped them forget their problems; those things are real. But I feel like I missed an opportunity to be involved in something that meant something more. I haven't been in touch with the raw powers of life, I haven't done a good job of being brave. Never took on the man very much.



We just spent a couple of nights free camping on National Forest Service land for free. Took the trailer out and let it breath the fresh mountain air. The Casita is an awesome way to go, camping isn't hard at all when you have everything! We had a family camp-out with tents and a tent-trailer. We enjoyed the luxury of the Casita and a generator. Saw this awesome DIY trailer on the road.

We sat around the campfire and talked. The big July moon lit up the landscape like a galactic street light. I understand that many people only get a couple of days here and there to get away from the human-created landscape. Nature is something many people read about while they sit in a climate-controlled box. Food comes from a package, water from a bottle, a tan from make-up. I'm afraid when nature is unnatural, something is amiss.

So much has changed in the short 18 months our house has been on wheels. One more stop and then we head back into living in a building for the winter. Life is not static, it is constantly moving and re-ordering. Just like the water in a river, the changing patterns reflected on its surface are unending and familiar. Change is the constant. Movement is magic.