Aww, it's Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays Day in New Zealand. In fact, this fancy day will be over in 3 hours and three minutes. Guess what?! 2012 is six days away in these lands. I'm in awe again of this concept of yearly, monthly, daily, hourly, minutely, secondly, nanosecondly time we humans have created over the many long years.
I'm in complete awe of hands too. Really, I can sit forever and think about the great complexity of hands and what a single hand is able to do. I'm so grateful to have two.
I'm in complete awe of the universe, too...and how it relates to infinity. Yeah, the concept of infinity is truly fascinating stuff. Our time on planet Earth really is miniscule compared to the very idea of infinity, to me. Makes me really wonder if writing on this here blog on my little piece of human created technology really matters in the whole scheme of the universe. What a strange land we have created on Earth. Sometimes I just don't get it. I really don't. Don't need to, either. It's all G.
Hm. Moving on to something more entertaining for blogland. I got my first leaf bruise ever! Oh my gosh y'all...it was my first ever for real, full dosage endo (spelling?) too - flipping.. more like flyyyyying over the handlebars! I actually thought it was fun. Then I landed. I was in one piece. whew. Then I had to stand up. Adrenaline rushing was flowing through me, so still no pain. But. My super new fancy 6 times worn bike shorts have an even newer hole in them. just one teardrop from my eye. they are only a pair of shorts, afterall. In the whole scheme of life - and the universe, not a big deal. My flatmate has a sewing machine - so just a little fabric surgery.
Both the hands I'm so grateful for still work, too :)
You can see in the pic that the leaf is bigger than my hand.
K, so my advice of the day. Take it a little easier going down a not very well maintained, super rutted trail for the first time. ok? Don't fly full speed ahead via mtn bike if you don't have a freakin' clue what's around the next corner.
That bruise wasn't caused by a leaf, by the way. It resembles one. A purple one.
No two trails are the same. Just like snowflakes.
Speaking of which, they don't exist here this time of year. December months on calendars are decorated with strawberries (no joke) and pohutakawas (a red fluffly looking flower similar to the very lovely ohia in the hawaiian bush - pic at top of this blog entry). They are both red and green. get it?? Just like Christmas colors.
Mele Kalikimaka to all my beautiful family and friends!
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