“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”  John Muir

Recently Kit and I ventured into Washington’s North Cascades. Their grandeur stilled me. John Muir’s words resonate with me and I pondered the power of wild and untamed places. We humans are filled with petty concerns and our own self-importance. Perhaps the indifference of the mountains, forests, and rivers to us is a reminder of how insignificant we really are. Wilderness gives us a break from ourselves. (See me in the July snow.)