Get Out

This month's blog will be short. I can't seem to find a reason to force myself to sit at the computer, unless it's for work. And writing in my mind should never be work.

I also can't seem to get enough time outside. I've dreamed at various times about having an outdoor kitchen. You know, like those outdoor kitchens with woodfired ovens and patio seating that people in perpetually pleasant climes enjoy? But I don't. However, I am happy to be in a place where at least this fall so far the weather has been, if unseasonably warm (today we are expected to break a record set in 2010) mostly sunny and not terribly windy- especially for the high plains of Wyoming! I even reinstated night walks before bed.

I took this action in part because the TV is on at my house all evening long, and I can't take it anymore. I literally feel nauseous after a short time, or yesterday just burst into tears when a video played of ICE agents bashing in the window of a car that did not belong to them, and that had a baby inside and parents crying out that there was a baby inside and to please stop.

There you have it. That one example of the meanness that rules the country in which I live right now. Thankfully, there is nature and there is community. Find yours, and restore your mental health. May the great outdoors and kind people refresh your soul.

p.s. Here is a photo I'll be showing in an upcoming art exhibit titled "Decay" at the Cooper Center for Creative Arts here in Laramie. The photo was taken at Snow Falls, Maine, in the autumn of 2015. Please enjoy Water Gold, and may the reflection fill you with light.