We\u2019ve all been cooped up, you know? When we heard they were opening the national parks we jumped. Ack up<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cat and away we go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those places take my breath away and make me think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We were not the first people to see the Grand Canyon. But someone was. One of those first people had to wonder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How would they ever get past it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
either go down through it, or find a way to go around it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hard to say which was harder. You can\u2019t easily tell the depth of the edges of this huge canyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what caused it? Surely the finger of a gigantic god dug out this terrible groove. That\u2019s half what I believe today as I look at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then the scientists took a look at it and did their hypothesis\/observation magic and gave an answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The water did this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
See that tiny silver squiggle? No, at the actual bottom.That\u2019s the river. It did this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, all of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I hadn\u2019t seen it, I would never believe it possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve known rocks and I\u2019ve known rivers. They don\u2019t behave this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This rock did. This river did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rocks are strong and rivers are soft. But there is something I haven\u2019t realized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What rivers have I been ignoring? What rocks have I taken for granted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This pandemic has shifted a lot of things I counted on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This Canyon reminds me there are things in the world I didn\u2019t expect. Immovable rocks can crumble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we rode mules partway down, I was impressed with how strong and tireless these mules were. The American west was tamed by mules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But even still we stopped a lot on the way up. Mules are not in fact tireless. We have to take care of them so they can do what we ask them to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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