Wednesday, March 07, 2018
It's Spring Break
As yesterday's post attests, it has been a not-so-great week thus far. But, it is Spring Break at UST law, so at least I have a chance for a little escape.
IPLawGuy (pictured above, driving the Barbie Jeep) and I are in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for some skiing. If you haven't heard of Jackson Hole, here are some key facts:
-- "Jackson Hole" is apparently an amorphous term used to refer to almost anything or anyplace in Northwestern Wyoming.
-- At the same time, nothing around here seems to be a "hole." In fact, it's all up above 6,000 feet or so, which is pretty much the opposite of a hole.
-- This seems to be a place for really serious skiers. You know, the kind with their leg in a cast. I'm not sure if that bodes well for us.
-- When we were renting the Barbie Jeep, there was a series of warning signs about the dangers of hitting very large animals. There were actually two different signs warning about hitting moose and elk, respectively. The one about elk featured a drawing of an enormous elk lying in the road, bleeding from the head as a totally smooshed car sits motionless while the driver, apparently dead, slumps over the wheel. So: don't hit an elk. Got it.
-- At the grocery store, everyone else seemed to be in the same boat as we were, meaning that they couldn't remember if the place they rented had a coffee maker or not, and if it did what kind of coffee it took. So we all stood around in the coffee aisle and talked about it for a while....
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While you are enjoying the white snow, an article on whiteness that I found inspiring:
https://baptistnews.com/article/gospel-torn-two-white-jesus/#.Wp_GymobMdU
https://baptistnews.com/article/gospel-torn-two-white-jesus/#.Wp_GymobMdU
While you're there, say hi to my cousins, Ian and Angelique, with baby Orrin, and Kent and Kendra, with baby Mason. Kent's a Jackson boy, born and raised. The Teton valley has been very good to my family. It's a place I plan to write about someday.
Ah, the Teton's so majestic. Just remember the black ice is more dangerous than the elk. And plenty of good places to cross country ski if the bunny hill is too daunting. It's not like skiing at Pine Knob.
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