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Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM

Leather Case, iPod Touch, February 15, 2009
Leather Case, iPod Touch, February 15, 2009

Now that it's here I'm torn

This day has been in the wind a long long time; now it's here. Verizon announced today they will be selling iPhones beginning February 10th.

I've been hanging on to my old LG cell phone for years in anticipation of this day. Now that it's here I'm torn. Trading in my old phone for an iPhone instantly makes my constant companion, my dedicated iPod Touch, redundant. That's ok. The thing is, though, the great leather case I lavished a week developing and making won't fit the new iPhones. So that becomes instantly redundant as well. Arrgh....

Night camp

Site 23 - Percha Dam State Park, Arrey NM

Our Past is Written Deep

We do not destroy this past of ours; it is indestructible. We carry it with us; its record is written deep in our lives. We only refuse to acknowledge it as our true past and try to make it an alien thing - something that did not happen to our real selves.... But this unremembered past endures.... Our buried past is mighty; the ghosts of our father and of the selves that we have been haunt our days and nights though we refuse to acknowledge their presence.

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