Our greater Seattle/Dragonfly family loved going to Lake Wenatchee State Park. Being there was always a highlight for the kids. Gwen and I first visited the lake in 1987. Gwen, Kristina, & I, often together with friends, would return many times with the children from 1994 thru 2011. Yet today the sense of loss, a slow, gradual erosion of what we had worked so hard for felt lonely and oppressive. We could feel a quickening in the losing nearly everything amidst the winter stillness of January in the Pacific Northwest.