best day
last night after the art con board meeting was adjourned, we each shared our best day ever. a thread: we were all either in nature or in a situation where we were totally humbled. that's me with a gal named liz during the summer i lived in yosemite national park. we'd hitchhiked to tuolome meadows earlier in the day and gone swimming in lake tenaya in the high country before heading up to cloud's rest from the back side. when we got to the top, an awesome thunderstorm was brewing. it was blackness behind us and as far as we could see in front, the most beautiful sunset. when our hair began rising, we knew we had to run several hundred feet down to the tree line to not get struck by lightning. we had intended to sleep under the stars on the top of cloud's rest, but we camped out in a tent provided by a stranger named john. i'm 20 years old in that picture. what a wonderful memory.
