Five Things

  1. Thank you to the Parks who allowed my family to invade their space this weekend and were excellent hosts.
  2. Thank you to all those who created and maintain the National Park Service. My family had fun on our recent visit to Lehman’s Caves.
  3. I’m struggling to avoid making this a backhanded compliment, but I suspect that I will fail. Thank you to the Mormon church for teaching me inhumane standards of sexual conduct. My struggles with trying to comply, the resulting shame and fear, and my eventual escape have all helped me to transcend and become more humane. Without that history, I would be less capable of compassion.
  4. Lacey, I may say this a lot, but thank you for living with my quirks, the things that make me unpleasant to live with on occasion. I’m still working on it.
  5. I am grateful for the realization that I am mortal, that my life is a finite resource.