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Joshua — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:41:57 +0000

Recently I hiked a trail in Estes Park; a park within the much larger Rocky Mountain National Park. Simply put, it was the most beautiful hike I’ve ever experienced. I spent a lot of time just yelling at the mountains from atop vistas, which is odd. It’s just my go to response when I’m generally overwhelmed with amazement at the beauty of a moment. I think the common response is to be rendered speechless. However one responds, it comes from a place of acknowledgement – a humble nod to the reminder that we are so very very small.

These views are traced by poets and song writers. They are the subject of books. Here each peak becomes its own character and we feel, in an immense wave of relief, all of our crushing self-importance dissolve into the dirt. Here, in the vast identity that is Nature we come to terms with the limitations of our knowledge and control. We shake hands with it, make peace with it and ask for its friendship, but we forget. As soon as we descend the mountain, as soon as we answer the call and enter back into the clock work of our existence, where we are needed, where we are important, the importance of what we just witnessed seems a mirage. Yet, it calls out to us in faint whispers and we return, begging Nature to remind us of the big picture and where we stand in the frame.

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Joshua — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:35 +0000

This weekend I planned to have a free community event in which people could stop by the park, hop in front of my camera and get a free photo. Sadly, the sky opened up and the rain poured down (No fear. Rain date is May 18th.), but I did stop by the park before the rain started and snapped a couple of shots of this lovely enjoying the ephemerally nice weather and strumming away.

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Joshua — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:55:00 +0000

There is nothing like packing up and heading into the woods. The above montage displays some of our most quintessential moments over the 2011 camping year. The feeling I long to express that correlates with the great escape to the outdoors cannot be better phrased than in the words of Henry David Thoreau:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Amen.

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