Its summer time. that means people come home to where they have been for various reasons like school, work, seasonal jobs, vacations (year long?). Because i have been home, I have gotten to see many of these summer visitations. I have gotten to visit with beautiful people. it being summer, i also get to look at all the beautiful things that have given way to life. trees, 9 months dead, now green with life.
This past couple weeks, well actually, all summer, have smothered Alaska with smoke from the many thousands of acres burning from forest fires. recently however, the smoke has been close to Fairbanks, where I currently reside. Visibility in the city sucks.
Anyways, I went with my youth group to Denali National Park on a yearly camping trip called CCC (short for communist chipmunk camp) [don’t ask why that’s what its called ha-ha] And there was NO smoke and the sun was even out. It was the most glorious thing i have ever seen.
Tori and I
The beauty of Denali National Park!
Anyways, I REALLY appreciated the sun and no smoke and seeing how pretty everything was that it just made me appreciate it so much more. its kinda like that with the crappy things in life. That’s all you see when its happening. But when it lifts, whenever that is, you appreciate the beauty way more than if the crap hadn’t been there.
if everything was good in our lives, i don’t think we’d appreciate it nearly as much as we do after we experience crap.
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