Grand Canyon - A New Reverence

July 18, 2024
The first seven miles was all down hill on thin ledges where looking over I couldn’t see anything but the blackness of a death drop. I was nervous with the only thing in sight a narrow ledge. Would I die today crossed my mind a few times. Some may call the steps I took forward in spite of those thoughts crazy, some courageous, some stupid. I don’t have a name for why except I started so early in the morning that there were thousands of stars and just the sound of my footsteps and breathing. That as I looked up at the infinite of stars mirrored by the infinite of nothing below me there was me in the middle knowing this is a good place to be.