O Felix Culpa
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leafs a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost The picture above is of my son John free climbing the North Face of the Eiger... or at least that is how I felt as he climbed the wall in a local playground! I've actually been to Grindelwald twice and did some outrageously dangerous free climbing there. Like my son's climb this week I free climbed because I was blissfully ignorant of the difficulty. It was my first time in Switzerland, and my first major peak of that holiday, and I blissfully traversed the Alps with little equipment, preparation or plan. I still shudder at the total lack of caution in that trip for I was the greenest of mountaineers ascending slopes meant for experienced climbers. Yet my ignorance allowed me to witness vistas that my experience didn't warrant. O Happy
