Yosemite Trip
merced river
spent a few days last week in Yosemite, which is always glorious just in general for obvious reasons but profoundly improved upon b/c it was winter and there was almost nobody there. We stayed in the valley at the ahwahnee cottages, adjacent to the hotel. One morning it snowed. One morning I got to run a couple miles, along the path to Mirror Lake as the sun was coming up. It was below freezing and there was nobody around except me and one giant-lensed photographer on a bridge and I was reminded of samsara/nirvana couplet that recurs everywhere there, the signal to noise ratio, the stress of travel and sharing a small room with 2 kids vs the 360 degree view of eternity, the mountain air, the endless human aspiration in the face of certain oblivion. It really helps recontextualize everything a person is doing or hoping to do with their allotted few moments.
Mirror Lake
