Rosie has had many fun adventures this week as we finish up Staff Training at YSSC. She has had fun swimming, lounging on the pontoon boat, taking a canoe ride, and hiking in Yosemite (Mommy hiked, Rosie hitched a ride in the jogger). We have loved watching her discover new experiences, feelings, and faces. I loved watching her face when the mist from Lower Yosemite Falls hit her little cheeks. She made the same scream/laugh that she does when Ron and I tickle her tummy. One morning we took her for a canoe ride around the shores of Bass Lake- she loved dipping her hand in the water as we went. All of Rosie's "firsts" help me to see, with new eyes, what my eyes have seen many times! A friend posted this quote in her monthly newsletter:
"One of the tragedies of growing up is that we get used to things. It has its good side of course, since irritations may cease to be irritations. But there is immense loss when we get used to the redness of the rising sun, and the roundness of the moon, and the whiteness of the snow, the wetness of rain, the blueness of the sky, the buzzing of bumble bees, the stitching of crickets, the invisibility of wind, the unconscious constancy of heart and diaphragm, the weirdness of noses and ears, the number of the grains of sand on a thousand beaches, the never-ceasing crash crash crash of countless waves, and ten million kingly-clad flowers flourishing and withering in woods and mountain valleys where no one sees but God…. May we seek a freshness of vision to look, as though it were the first time…at the personal handiwork of an infinitely strong, creative and exuberant Artist who made the earth and the sea and everything in them…. May you believe that today, this very day, some stroke is being added to the cosmic canvas that in due course you shall understand with joy as a stroke made by the Architect who calls Himself Alpha and Omega." John Piper
