It occurs to me as I write this that we are surrounded. By dozens and hundreds and thousands of invisible, powerful, ever-changing things. By air molecules and dust spores, yes. By tiny single-celled organisms that live in our eyelashes and intestines, true. (And,...
Thirty-five minutes into our hike into the Grand Canyon we arrived at the vista. We were the equivalent of 76 flights of stairs down and my quads, already quaking, would need to take on the harder half of the route – UP – on the way back. But the kids...