Of Minerals and Men

This weekend I went to a gem show. That's right, I get more hippy everyday. I like it that way. So, there is this town in Arizona, Quartzsite where people go to have this kind of semi permanent gem show. They sell jewelry, antiques, rocks, gems, minerals, crystals... you get the deal. Its this weird combination of snow birds and hippies. So we immersed ourselves in this community. I met some interesting people. It was a weird experience that I am still piecing back together but so much good came out of it. I'm piecing back together the very real experience I had that very short time, which seemed much longer, and the me that wants to analyze everything. Right now, I don't want to analyze anything. I just want to experience and accept and talk and laugh and play and stay up all night to watch the sun rise and the sky change.

I met one guy, Wade, who'd gotten into napping (stones... making arrowheads) and decided to take a month and go to this place where some of the best nappers in the country would be. Wow. I'm inspired. We stayed up all night and watched the sun come up. He gave me an arrowhead when we left, one that he'd made the day before. I think the gravity of this gesture speaks for itself. I was holding it the entire car ride home and it became so light, almost like part of my hand. I forgot it was in there and I dropped and broke it when I got home. Jami is going to wire wrap it for me after I glue it back together since it only broke into 3 pieces.

I feel so much better after leaving and going to experience something more. There is so much I left out but there's too much to type and explain. So I leave it up to being exactly what I needed.