District Forest 2
We worked 40 days to get a day off. Actually we lived 40 days of getting paid. I still believe that none of us considered those days as work. We were either waiting to fight forest fires or really out there fighting them.
The beauty of learning something new is that the new people are all untarnished. Sharing moments of absolute wonder. Sparky and I watched a thunder storm roll in first thing in the morning. He really woke me up out of bed to get me to watch the thunderstorm come rolling in over Watt Mountain.
That wonderous joy of niavete and innocence where people are able to see the best in you when you are new to them and they to you is amazing. Joyfulness. I would like to share that joy with my children. The mess of living in a small town is a quagmire that can drag emotions down, but a real muskeg is a site of wonder that is teeming with microorganisms and a food site for moose, waterfowl.
Then the contrast comes of dealing with the next progression of looking for more. People who have goals and agendas to further their career. This is not unusual. The numbers of the people who are helpful is still out weighing the few who are pencil necks.
And I find that the quality of people who are not pencil necks at heart, is a step above the rest. They can be a part of a team. They can understand and live the quality of self-less-ness.
But the line of self-preservation keeps the team builders alive and kicking.
Characters such as these are harder to find in the long end of life. Faithfulness is tough in the long haul. But some of us alive are lucky to search and find ways back to the moments of wonder. The moments of wonder that can be found on a floating dock at 5:30 am in a June morning watch a thunderstorm roll in. Knowing that a beautiful pure busy day is now set out for you. Anticipation rewarded is a fine, fine emotion. Rewarded trust is another. Sharing the smell of the electricity before the storm, and then sharing the damp smell in the air as the storm moves off.
An important goal is to stay open to moments like that when serendipity arrives. Be ready. Make your own luck. Bank the odds in your favour.
Search for the wonder in the day.
The beauty of learning something new is that the new people are all untarnished. Sharing moments of absolute wonder. Sparky and I watched a thunder storm roll in first thing in the morning. He really woke me up out of bed to get me to watch the thunderstorm come rolling in over Watt Mountain.
That wonderous joy of niavete and innocence where people are able to see the best in you when you are new to them and they to you is amazing. Joyfulness. I would like to share that joy with my children. The mess of living in a small town is a quagmire that can drag emotions down, but a real muskeg is a site of wonder that is teeming with microorganisms and a food site for moose, waterfowl.
Then the contrast comes of dealing with the next progression of looking for more. People who have goals and agendas to further their career. This is not unusual. The numbers of the people who are helpful is still out weighing the few who are pencil necks.
And I find that the quality of people who are not pencil necks at heart, is a step above the rest. They can be a part of a team. They can understand and live the quality of self-less-ness.
But the line of self-preservation keeps the team builders alive and kicking.
Characters such as these are harder to find in the long end of life. Faithfulness is tough in the long haul. But some of us alive are lucky to search and find ways back to the moments of wonder. The moments of wonder that can be found on a floating dock at 5:30 am in a June morning watch a thunderstorm roll in. Knowing that a beautiful pure busy day is now set out for you. Anticipation rewarded is a fine, fine emotion. Rewarded trust is another. Sharing the smell of the electricity before the storm, and then sharing the damp smell in the air as the storm moves off.
An important goal is to stay open to moments like that when serendipity arrives. Be ready. Make your own luck. Bank the odds in your favour.
Search for the wonder in the day.
posted by Rob Riddell at 3:31 a.m.
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