Benchwarmer Gets Back Into The Game: CPR For The Soul

Every Spring, while half the world busies itself with Renewal and Life...awakening from the cold, dark blight of winter...getting outdoors instead of reading blogs (as they should), the Wanderer seems to go out of sync with the Universe. Sometimes, like when I've just come off the road and everybody else is still out playing...and another monster snowstorm is baring down...and readers have better things to do, it feels as if a collective Yawn goes up from the Cosmos; apathy (pathos?) regarding my life-choices, objectives and purposeful intentions. Maybe I should just suspend the BCB till Mud Season is over.

When the BCB product loses its pulse, insecurity seeps into The Valleys of the Shadows. I feel like a "bench warmer" hitting the oxygen mask...trying to feel part of the game...and to make matters worse, there's nobody in the stands. 

Then, out of the blue Colorado sky, an encouraging email manages to break through cobwebs and fall into dust that coats the bottom of my inbox (Poof!). Coach screams, "Johnson! Get your helmet on and go in for Fleming...he's lost out there and it's killing us." 

This lovely note is from Nicole in San Francisco.

Hello  Mark , I have to tell you how much I enjoy your blog  I read it from the shout box  of George and ms tioga  the two only blogs  i don't go sleep without reading Thank for sharing  so many interesting to me places to visit , I'm a bus driver for a local transit in the Bay  area , planning  retiring  in the next three months, I'm planning to go to some of the places  you wrote about, I have been working on the same job for the past 33 years, (very long hours   every day day  ) my my mind needs to learn how to be free  again) Thanks to your  great ability to describe  places , will be easy start  visiting , some of   them so many of the places  that write  about ,I have been to but  some forty years ago, will be fun see the change or hopefully not so much change. (Also please pardon , English ,  it is a learned how to speak language , writing is a new adventure  for me

, one of the reasons of  writing to you is,, can I borrow couple of your picture of the Saguaro Cactus of the Sonora Desert to put them in my face book,???) Thank you  and keep  enjoying life  it is contagious  and I 'm  in great need of it.

-- NG 

Thanks for the CPR, Nicole, what a beautiful, uplifting, and well-timed note. You made my day week :)

Flashback photos are from a Sedona hike with Wiseones. Have a great weekend everybody!

Mark and Bobbie in Lovely Ouray...waiting on the next snowstorm: ETA, Midnight...