December 29, 2007
Location: Lost in the Mtns of Colorado
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When I started out on this journey with Forbes, I was asked a question by a professor in Toronto. He asked me why I didn't intend to continue all the way to the southern tip of South America? I told him it was a matter of money. His response has resonated within me ever since,

"You don't need money, you just need friends."

I was lost and outside of Christmas until I dropped a line to my friends Jeff & Kat who are living in the Colorado Rockies. Jeff insisted I come up to his A-Frame hidden up in the trees on the side of a mountain. I couldn't refuse, it was either a cold Christmas in gas-station parking lots, or a mountain mecca with old friends.

Life has a way of running full circle, it's a long story but a few years ago, Jeff & Kat helped me save my brother's life, while at the same time my brother was undoubtedly saving mine. As I said it's a long story, but I feel those energies of the past have now come full circle and we are all somehow letting go of old patterns that have been with us ever since. It's nice to see how time takes care of things, and it's important to learn to observe nature's patterns as they run through our lives.

Our Christmas together was modest, and more about good friends than rampant spending, which suits me fine. For me after all, the gift of comfort is one of the most beautiful things I can be given.

It's interesting to be back in the 'real' world though. Jeff and I have been ripping around mountainsides of his ski-doo as he, a former videographer, is helping me find and capture content. It's nice to have a camera man again, to shoot me while I shoot, and just to lighten the burden of multiple formats.

I've mostly been capturing footage of old silver mines and enormous landslides. This footage fits in well with the themes of erosion, time and resource extraction that I've been capturing since the beginning of this pilgrimage. I don't know how it all fits together, but that's nothing new, as I'm continuing to simply trust the process.

I'm very grateful to my friends/family who have taken me in, and I'm doing my best to repay them in carpentry work upon the A-Frame, and anything else that adds to a sense of harmony in their lives.

peace,
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