Tuesday, April 18, 2017

guest post - roxborough state park

welcome to change. i pay tribute to a wife and mother and daughter who has painstakingly over the last 8 years invested in her family on a daily basis. not only the very boring and mundane but also the very mundane and boring. while those who do care click on the our golden days link and step into the daily life of a hectic family i honor her and her legacy she has created through the recording of our pictorial history. i have come to eagerly anticipate what camera angle will be next or how she can doll and doctor up the ordinary to make it sound and look extraordinary. from her has come a plethora of creativity and sensitivity and passion about making our lives abundant. we have all been blessed and enriched by her dedication and discipline. unlike blog life,,,,i have heard the exclamations when the site has crashed just before posting, the days when there isn't a story to captivate and the threatening to cease and desist. to my darling wife from all of us...you have imbued us all with the thread of your love for us and your pursuit of inner peace. we learn to cut out the excess (well we are learning), concentrate on the essential and spread ourselves where we want to have the greatest effect. that you have chosen us and we have been the beneficiary of 36 years of Janet Nicole is my daily prayer of gratitude. may we always reflect the love and honor and respect that you give us so unreservedly. you shape our lives every day.

i cannot do it justice but here is one of my golden days........


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roxborough state park lies about 45 miles from boulder on the south western edge of the denver bowl. it is to the south about what boulder is to the north. set amongst the uplifted formations that also mark the flatirons the trail took us on a 3.5 mile jaunt through the foothills on a magnificent spring saturday morning.

we started with a gentle ascent that saw us overlook the denver skyline and were reminded of our western heritage with the appearance of the western relics that ghosted across the ridge.


the scrub oak always appear to be about waist high when you see them from the valley bottom but when you are in the midst of them they become a formidable barrier easily reaching 15-20 ft above you. in the fall those are the brilliant reds you see on the foothills.


it seemed that around every corner we had to stop and it was a relief to have father insisting on a camera break. i think the rhetoric that janet has developed over the last 8 years involving "picture" moments have become words of indifference and we have lost the eager will to snap to attention and cooperate. we promise to do better janet.


i have been following that surreal image and it has never led me astray. i have been a project for this woman but i have learned to listen to her calm and steady voice and respect and honor her carefully considered and weighed opinions. i have always wanted to rush and hurry and speed ahead. i have learned much from waiting and asking and listening and respecting. it is an honor to have you along for the ride and i will walk in your footsteps gladly. i will always have your back !!!


choke cherry blossom time. the air was thick with perfume as you come down into the glen and find  yourself immersed in the thickets of white. a popcorn ball that would smell so sweet .....i had no idea why american kids would have a song about popcorn balls. did they bounce? could you kick them? i understand a little better now.


it has been a very interesting few months as janet and i ease into our next phase of life. we can certainly feel the climate changing with gabi about to finish her second last year of high school. the house is quiet..gabi has a car...we hardly see her and so there are these 2 grown up people in a house looking at each other and asking ...what is next? well i can tell you... i fell in love 36 years ago this week when i walked into the reserve library at byu and saw a face that i never wanted to let out of my sight again. from across the room i could feel her light and her goodness. my life course changed in an instance. a whirlwind courtship and marriage was blessed with 5 extraordinary children that have taught us so much..but that chapter is drawing to a close and we find ourselves looking at each other in awe and asking....what the hell just happened??!!! time has passed so swiftly and we return again to each other with a new commitment and dedication to start this next phase of our life and invest and harvest from the bounty of the people with whom we have been blessed to share our dreams.

slow spring saturdays hiking in nature's splendour, talking about everything under the sun and looking back with no regrets at the paths you have taken, sharing your footsteps and your dreams and not believing that this beautiful, compassionate, tender woman still picks you every day to share her life.....that has to constitute indeed....my best golden day. may there be many more.

salut...my love,
paul

2 comments:

  1. Hear! Hear! You sure made one very good choice in your life and we are all blessed by her being in our family! What a beautiful tribute... Many more golden days indeed...

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