Ask For What You Want

We have been receiving over 200% of normal rainfall since mid-June; and a very heavy downpour the last 24 hours. All six of the waterfalls on Mount Juneau are running full. Along with several from Mount Roberts, all of them terminate in Gold Creek, which runs through Cope Park. At any rate, all of the creeks in my neck of the woods are engorged these days. So, yesterday morning when the Care-A-Van driver picked me up he mentioned that he had taken a break at Cope Park (only one block down hill from my apartment, but since there is no elevator on the mountainside, about a 12 block walk or drive around) and the creek was running heavy laden and really lovely.

And so, remembering that I am supposed to be taking good care of myself, I said, "Would you have time to drive me down to look?" And he checked his schedule, and he did! It was only a few blocks out of our way from apartment to office, but we took 15 minutes and went and walked in the rain beside the rapids and allowed the sound of cascading water and the beauty of the setting to sooth our souls and set us both on the path to a day of being centered. And I was all day.