Going off the grid, getting some R & R

For two days I went off the grid; no cell phone, no computer, no bank card.

Don had invited me up to Black Rock for a boy's weekend. On the Saturday afternoon he said I looked the most relaxed he'd seen me in months.

We had an amazing walk in the woods in the afternoon, a spectacular sunset, a great feast for dinner and then an evening bonfire all the while listening to echoes across the lake of the different bands and singers playing a major party at Ronnie Hawkins place.

It's a beautiful place where on the barren granite of the canadian shield the lichen grows deep and the white pines have shattered the rock to secure their roots. It's a great metaphor for the perserverance required in living through this difficult time.

Last year the northern lights raced across the sky. This year we were treated to the Milky Way.

Just what the doctor ordered.