So I went on this three day snowboarding trip last weekend which was an absolute blast! I think that I love snowboarding. Though I’m still just a beginner, I feel like I’m making progress. Snow is great. At least, three days of it is, and the snow was really amazing. At the top of the mountain the trees are so covered in snow they don’t look like trees but blobs, and they’re called the Zao (name of the mountain) snow monsters. It’s wickedly cold up with monsters, but pretty cool all the same.
The first day of snowboarding I got a little lost, because I got separated from the others and didn’t have a map. Ended up at a dead end on the east side of the slopes just as the lifts were shutting down. I ended up having to take a bus back to town, which was an adventure. I was happy for the bus.
Uh… let’s see. Yeah. It was a good trip.
I recently became aware of charms. I mean, you see them around here all the time. They were selling them at pretty much all the temples in Kyoto, but it didn’t really connect. The thought that an object, a pencil, a foot, a sock, was “lucky” was always just a joke to me. Ad it occurred to me recently that people seriously put some stock in that. A charm is an object that people use to feel safe, to get some control and even though they may know it might not work they put some trust in it, or are afraid to go without it. …idk. I guess I just never put myself in that mindset because, because for me pencils are wood, foots and dead animals, and socks are cotton or whatever. And they’re just that. Trust and hope and safety are in God. He’s big enough for all of it.
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