Boulder: Not so Wildlife Spottings of the Day

Boulder: Afterhours Window Shopping

Part 3: Boulder Ben

Part 2: East OR

Road Trip Part 1: Portland

My dear friends Jon and Stephanie who treated me to a wonderful visit to Portland.
I'm done with my internship in Bellingham, WA and on to the next thing, whatever that turns out to be. And the thing that will bring me eventually into the arms of that still undefined 'next thing' is, very fittingly, a road trip. I'm falling blissfully into the couches of my friends for the next couple of weeks.

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Rocky Mountain Flashback

I'm getting ready to head back across the country, and I've got a serious case of Rocky Mountain nostalgia. I was looking back over some pictures from my time in CO in the spring and found this one from just a few steps away from Buffalo Bill's grave. I have a feeling that the Rockies will pull at my heart wherever I go. Thats wonderful, but ouch, enough already.

Mr. Board

This picture from the accounting office I went to today made me laugh. The cardboard cut-out is of a board member.

Getting the Game

I shot what was probably my favorite assignment for the Herald the other day: a youth basketball camp. Its hard not to feel joy when you're in a gym packed with thirty or so children innocently absorbing the fundamentals of basketball. Without an expectation or frustration in the world, they approach each drill bighearted and good humored. I left with the realization, or perhaps re-realization, that, yeah, 'it's just a game,' but games are amongst the best things we have. Games are neat little contained worlds, with finite and distinguishable rules, in which we get to pour our raw and unheralded resources into; and out of this magic formula, so many facets of the human character come out to play and interact. Such purity of effort without much thought or expectation of the outcome is, I think, I delightful way of being.

This purity of effort, specifically toward basketball, made up a great deal of my childhood, so hanging out at the camp was also very nostalgic for me. It was great to get my hands on a ball again too!
Anyway, if you'd like to take a look, you can check out a gallery of pictures from the camp here.

Cheers, and happy happy new year!