covers is smothering us.
but remembering crises and needs -- haiti, in our city, the world -- pull us out of our pigeon holes and petty preoccupations, pushing us back to perspective and purposeful sanity. we forget. all too often. no news from one of our wv kids in the disaster country... pray, give, pray, give, pray, pray. pray. PRAY.
gonna be quite a year... know it and feel it already. but ready. going forth with a strength not our own.
oh, and happy 27th, the doh jongness. :P and happy a few hours old, alyssa grace linh-diem dao, on the 27th. congrats l&d!
the road to 2010...
post Christmas: vegas. this city's not us. fabricated and a bit too much. once-in-a-lifetime in a category of its own. :P
12.30: -282 feet below sea level, the lowest in n. america. utter solitude and an eerily welcomed desolation in death valley, ca. off-roading, hiking by moonlight, driving stretches on end with no cars ahead or behind.
12.31: back to the strip for NYE w/ g's fam. stood on las vegas blvd., vehicle-prohibited for the night, for a laser digital countdown + fireworks blasted from the street's iconic hotels w/ 315,000 crazy revelers.
01.01: up, up and away (hard-to-get-to away) to the highest peaks in brian head, utah for our first carves of the season. :) zion national park stops there and back w/ sunsets against stunning rock formations. of the intricate fingers of God, we cannot deny.
not-to-forgets: kao's stranded in ok blizzard & dan's "accident". gloria's lock-out in the hotel hallway & borrowed wheelchair. yogurt in, u-swirl-it, blizzberry, spoon me (in small town st. george) for g. y's detour drive for utah's grand circle of nat'l parks. dan's accident no.2 on bright angel trail in the grand canyon. :P
back, both of us... par avion for her, rue for him a few days later. still recovering somewhat.
regardless, hello another decade in century 21.
