I Choose Joy

Rocky Mountain National Park 4-4-25

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Even a wounded world is feeding us.

Even a wounded world holds us,

giving us moments of joy and wonder.

I choose joy over despair,

not because I have my head in the sand,

but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

I spent the morning in RMNP, it was a chilly 23 degrees. Halfway through my walk, the sun came out to melt the fresh snowfall.

Although I don’t have photos of the moose, elk and turkeys that were seen…here are a few pictures I took along the way.

By all appearances it still looks like winter here, but new growth promises spring is right around the corner