May 26, 2007
Weaning and feeding 3 corrals of bawling calves into Memorial Day weekend – and judging by the RVs out early on the road yesterday, America’s ready to party despite the price of fuel. We’ll stick close to the canyon and watch for fire and idiots – retreating to our boroughs like ground squirrels.
Up the road tonight for community food and drink, to swap gossip with neighbors and then coast home – a prideful event enhanced as we look down upon all the foreign vehicles on the road like hawks from upslope oaks.
Not surprising that the Natives claim they learned how to live from the wildlife, easy these days to see through wilder eyes. Not special sight perhaps, but a way to sort sense where often there seems none. But the flaw with emulating nature is embedded in human history – and like those who have preceded us, we trust our vision will serve us until we get out of here.
It’s relative, of course, each succeeding generation of land based people believing they are the last bastion to hold such sight stirred with wild tales and heroics, such pleasant myths – but most days better than the alternatives.
Have a pleasant weekend, but steal a moment to remember the Vets.