Recently
I've made a commitment to avoid giving more than momentary attention to
my own emotional drama. This includes especially thoughts about this
or that person not liking me, or about my own failings that I so often
imagine might be the cause of that slight.
For me, time spent in the wilderness helps put things in perspective. This is especially true at Yellowstone. There, 640,000 years ago, a volcanic explosion formed a caldera nearly five eighths of a mile deep and 45 by 28 miles wide. It is inside the boundaries of this caldera that Yellowstone's many thermal features occur.
Of what significance are my petty emotional dramas compared to an explosion so strong, it didn't even have time to form the sloping sides of a classic volcano, but instead blew a hole clear out of the ground! Such is the power of wilderness and of an appreciation for the geological history of the world to put the puny ego-self into perspective!
Photo: A lone hiker walks at the West Thumb Geyser Basin (next to Yellowstone Lake); Yellowstone National Park, WY; August 31, 2013
For me, time spent in the wilderness helps put things in perspective. This is especially true at Yellowstone. There, 640,000 years ago, a volcanic explosion formed a caldera nearly five eighths of a mile deep and 45 by 28 miles wide. It is inside the boundaries of this caldera that Yellowstone's many thermal features occur.
Of what significance are my petty emotional dramas compared to an explosion so strong, it didn't even have time to form the sloping sides of a classic volcano, but instead blew a hole clear out of the ground! Such is the power of wilderness and of an appreciation for the geological history of the world to put the puny ego-self into perspective!
Photo: A lone hiker walks at the West Thumb Geyser Basin (next to Yellowstone Lake); Yellowstone National Park, WY; August 31, 2013
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