memorial hay-day

i gambled away 3 perfectly good dollars. i know i'll never win because the gambling gods as well as regular god would prefer that i not have luck or get addicted...fyi i am addicted. 3 dollars doesn't sound like much but originally i only had one to play with. one of the others came form my wife who didn't want to play hers and the last came from begging. so the ugliness of the sport has come about in the short amount of time it took to gamble away 3 dollars. this continued, at least the desperation until we were a couple miles away from the glitzy doors of the mesquite casinos.

other than that i had a wonderful weekend hanging with our good friends the cliffords. we got to know them a lot better and it was fun being able to talk deeply on almost any subject. sharing moments with my wife and our friends on the top of a mountain looking out over two separate valleys and into the beginning of the grand canyon national park were serene and entirely memorable. i have gained a real appreciation for the beauty of the desert.