Oh the freedom, the joy, the awe. Nothing so spectacular as to come and go as you please. We spent the last two weeks running around for Matt's brothers wedding. Camping at Waitts Lake, WA and enjoying family time. I dug up some smooth gray clay to use for facials and first aid. Picked and dried red clover, plantain, dandelion, mint and rasberry leaves for tea. Yummm.
 
We drove from Spokane to The Dalles, OR yesterday. It was around 101 degrees in the bus. So the kids were mellow, hehe. We stopped in Umatilla at this sweet little park and went swimming in the river. Kind of shocking how socially divided that area is. The river was lined with mexicans fishing for Trout under the shady canopy, while all the white but not indigenous locals were probably in safeway looking for a box of cereal under fluorescent lights. Olivia emerged triumphant from under the murky water with what looked like a tangled up gummy worm on a string. She took a stick and tied that old piece of fishing line to it. It still had the lure and hook attached. Of course, she'll never get a fish. (I'm thinking this as a matter of fact and not anything I actually say to her)
A couple fishing next to us chuckled at her audacity. The breeze was warm, the trees huge and shady. The river cool and beautiful. I go up to the bus and start dinner. The kids stay with Matt at the boat launch.

Ten minutes later Olivia runs up to the door "Mama, mama I got a fish!" She hold open a plastic sack. The fish is still alive. Colorful, gasping for its own air. The couple that was fishing next to us gave her a big shiny trout.

The obstacles really don't matter. Proceed with a childs audacity and the end results appear in ways you could have never planned. Life is beautiful and in this moment we are eternally beautiful too.

Matt says "How can we be eternally beautiful if we're only in this moment?"

Because this moment is eternal. . .

PS. My new favorite band of the moment is Air. It's good music to make stuff to. Check them out.