An Ellipsis

I’ve written about this before, but some of the best parts of life are in ellipsis, like in a movie “Five years later…” Some period of time has passed when there’s no action, no drama, just life. Those are sometimes my happiest moments.

I had a weekend in an ellipsis. We went for a back country ski and the snow was just amazing, which in itself was fantastic because it hasn’t snowed for a while. Often that means that the snow that’s left is horrible to ski, but I picked out a good orientation and a new-to-me place to ski, and it worked out better than I could have imagined.

Today was less successful, but just as fun in the end. I’ve been trying to climb once a week at least, since taking a two month break. Today I looked, like, a hundred times at the weather report. There was fog below, and anywhere above the fog was a longer walk or drive than I wanted to take on. We tried a spot that was supposed to clear up and…it didn’t. We climbed one pitch and couldn’t feel our hands or feet. So we went to the indoor wall and I got my jollies there. It was warm at least.

There were just a couple of times this weekend that were just…lovely. Nothing special, but 1) nothing hurt in particular 2) we had a nice ski 3) we climbed well 4) we ate well 5) my partner and I had nice discussions. I mean, nothing extraordinary, but it was just nice, you know? I felt so privileged to be able to do all of this. I had the time, the health, the energy, a partner to share this with. It was just so awesome. And if you asked me in a month what I did this last weekend, I might not even remember, but it was just another two days the ellipsis part of a life.