Rain

[H2O Man]

3. Well, thank you!

This is such a strange time period. I suppose that that's always the case. But in recent weeks, I've noticed more of the people that I'm closest to having difficulty in staying positive. And I understand that -- really, I do, as the past 9 months have provided me with more negative things than I care to think about.

My friend asked me, "How do you do it? How do you maintain, and even be productive?" I showed her a carving of a bald eagle I'd been working on for the past several days, from a nice section of an elk antler. In the hours when I was working on that, all those problems were still there, but they weren't occupying space in my mind. In fact, by focusing on the antler, some new ideas on how to deal with those problems came to the surface.

I'm lucky: out a short distance from the lodge, there is an enormous boulder. A clear spring comes out from the north-west section of the boulder, and runs year-round. So we had lots of cool water to drink inside the lodge!