Two Days After

Odd, to wake up in the morning wihtout a pending election to think about! Odd, in fact, to wake up this particular morning because my alarm was set for 4:30 AM...I was picked up at 5 in order to head to the airport. Now I am in Salt Lake City, sititng in the Delta Crown Room while I kill a few hours between planes.

A snapshot from my cell phone shows a glimpse of mountains with snow.

Calgary is the every-four-year conference called KALEIDOSCOPE.  I was at it once a long time ago..it must have been 1992, because I remember my mom was still alive, and that was the year she died.  And the reason I remember that was because my mother had always yearned to visit Banff and Lake Louise...I think she had been there as a very young woman. So when I found myself there (having rented a car and headed west after the conference in Calgary) I used a tape recorder and talked into it, describing for her what I was seeing (she was blind in the last months of her life)

Curious how one memory leads to another, to another, to another.  of course that kind of free association is what keeps psychoatrists on 

Comments

[Colin]

this picture makes me think of something. generally speaking (and obviously this isn't what you were doing), it's funny how nowadays you always see pictures of architectural wonders. i was recently in las vegas, and you think about how people are always taking pictures of the hotels and all the lights, fountains, etc. and somewhere, in the background, you see the mountains. and beautiful mountains are all around you, but no one focuses on that anymore. nature takes a backseat. and even seeing a picture as simple as what you've posted reminds me of how often you see things like that, especially in a place like las vegas. and with you the mountains are what makes the difference, not what's in front of them. nature has the real history.

[CJ]

This picture makes me think of something. generally speaking (and obviously this isn't what you were doing), it's funny how nowadays you always see pictures of architectural wonders. I was recently in las vegas, and you think about how people are always taking pictures of the hotels and all the lights, fountains, etc. Then somewhere, in the background, you see the mountains. Beautiful mountains are all around us, but no one focuses on them anymore. Nature takes a backseat. Even seeing a picture as simple as what you've posted reminds me of how often you see things like that. And here is your picture, and all you can think about are the mountains, and what they remind you of. Nature has the real history.