The Things They Do On Tahoma Creek Trail

That lovely girl I know and I hiked up a washed out Tahoma Creek trail this Labor Day weekend in a desperate hunt for the last few sunny tendrils of summer. The news of Indian Henry's snow-- reported by rangers along the way--was a somber reminder that August's few moments of potency and verility had been ephemeral affairs indeed. In odd and ironic counterpoint to this sense of impending molecular deacceleration, however, was an alien conflagration of the like that I am unlikely to ever encounter again. On the way home--wrapped together in a briliant burst of sunlight--we found a couple in flagrante... the man on bended knee...a woman being weighted down by a sparkly new hand rock. "She said yes!" he exclaimed as he leapt to his feet... and we two were obliged to stumble past muttering congratulations under our breath.

Waves & Nations

Paul told me the other day that "we ride our own karmic wave". I'm fairly certain this statement was entwined within a discussion of ancient Sumerian achievements and Par Lagerkvist novels. 10 minute conversations with Paul can be like that sometimes...

Anyway... I liked the idea. A wave... something inherently ocillatory. Something you can increase the range/frequency of by adding more energy to the system. Something that radiates out from the forceful introduction of a momentarily foreign object into the encompassing sea of time and space.

It has been a meditative tool all week. Good for both the micro and macro landscapes of the moment.

At a personal level... found out a good friend may have cancer, my bike got stolen, locked myself out of my truck. But... after that... perspective (and carnations) from Paul, a new (faster) bike, and the exploration of new human intimacies.

At a macro level... Russia has just invaded Georgia, is threatening punishment of the Polish/US missile defense installation... and I now fear that the new militant era of global resource consolidation has just announced it's second major offensive player. In optimistic naivite I cross my fingers and wonder if this might further promote the embrace of non carbon-based energies. But, who knows, maybe it just means we are closer to wiping mankind off the planet alogether. Hmmm... ever notice that it get's harder to define the baseline for positive & negative the farther you extrapolate from yourself?