Nice Storm

Have you ever seen a bush get struck my lightning? I haven't until about 20 minutes ago. It was pretty amazing really. The entire bush glowed bright orange and pink for a split second then I could see smoke and steam coming off of the bush. It all happened so fast. I was driving behind Lindsey and she saw it too. Pretty cool. Here's a picture of the Doppler radar of what we just went though. We were entering Tijeras Canyon.

Get Over Yourself, Denver

Seriously, I think that Denver, Colorado is one of the most beautiful cities in the country. I have one complaint though, and it's the elevation thing. Everywhere you go in Denver you see something about being one mile high. It's the "Mile High City". Even the city's magazine is called 5,280. Maybe this fact is something that is really impressing for all of the transplants from the east coast. For me, I was born at 7,000 ft above sea level at St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, NM. (I kind of wonder if it's the highest full service hospital in the U.S.) I have to laugh though at some of the things we are fascinated with. And I'm the guiltiest. I always talk about my current elevation... I'm ranting because I often see Denverites vandalizing Wikipedia pages and trying so hard to tell the world that they are a mile high. First of all, miles are dumb. Nobody else cares about miles, they care about kilometers. Second of all, I just want to read about boiling temperatures, I don't care that Denver is a mile high. Here's the quoted text from that article:

"In Denver, Colorado, which is at an elevation of about one mile, water boils at approximately 95 °C.^[2] Depending on the type of food and the elevation, the boiling water may not be hot enough to cook the food properly. Similarly, increasing the pressure as in a pressure cookerraises the temperature of the contents above the open air boiling point."

Our Weekend

What an amazing weekend! It started with some great New Mexican food at Silvano's with my family. I got to show my new camera to my dad, mom and brothers. I snapped a few good photos too, I can't wait to get them developed. I really hope that they come out, I'm still trying to understand camera settings. -- It's also been really dark and stormy. That is really refreshing to me. The air smells nice. It's cool. I love it. 

Another thing we did was go on a mini road trip in northern New Mexico. New Mexico is so beautiful, and a lot of people don't know it. We went up to Santa Fe to Espanola to Taos. We saw the taos gorge and the majestic New Mexico Rocky Mountains. We then traveled through the Carson National Forest toward Angel Fire. We went up to the base of Angel Fire and enjoyed some coconut shrimp and a micro brew. Then we traveled south from Angel Fire through Black Lake and Guadalupita then through Mora then past Storie Lake then to Las Vegas and back through Santa Fe and finally toward Albuquerque. All along enjoying some amazing lightning shows. It was just a great little trip and I can't wait to do it again. Hopefully I'll have some photos to show off soon. 

Comfort

It's been an interesting morning so far. I feel a bit unsettled. I don't know why I feel this way sometimes. I guess it's just emotions. I feel like there's a place where my life needs to be and when my life isn't there then my emotions feel sort-of off. Where I feel I should be is--->comfortable... Is comfort that important though? Well, maybe not. Maybe I need to move because if I am comfortable then I stay still and if I stay still then life gets stagnant. Life is stagnant and then it just starts to stink. It's the same ol', same ol'. I wake up, I go to work, I watch some show that I watched the night before, then I go to sleep and wake up then do it all over again the next day. That is not life. That is not being human. Being human is loving people. To be a human you have go out there and experience God's creation. There is so much beauty out there that nobody seems to care about. With the beauty comes danger. You hear about hikers and campers getting lost all the time... But that danger takes you out of your comfortable home, your comfortable car, your comfortable chair. You're alive! Love!

I just have some things on my mind this morning. I don't feel comfortable, not at all. I had a bad dream last night that disturbed me. But maybe it's God's way of saying "MOVE! You're way too comfortable!". So I won't pout, I won't stew, I won't feel sad. I'll move. Life keeps moving. People still need to be told that they are valued. People need to feel human.

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