It's all too much

It's been awhile, the blog has sat idle, quiet, not because everything is well with the world, but a need to suss it out.

What to do?

What to say?

Last weekend we got away to the local mountains for a couple of days in a tent.

It was the same local mountains that I used to visit when I needed a break from the world, to recharge, to search for my soul, heal my heart.

And it was a drag to see them tattered and brown, the result of a ragged little insect called the bark beetle that has ravaged the mountainside.