Love & Romance in the Woods by the Falls. Kissing her ignited kundalini snakes down in my root & sacral chakras. She taught me many things…about herself, about life energies, & ultimately about my own self. The Divine knows of such intimate play in the shadows between Sacred Darkness and the Burning Light. Meanwhile, I am carrying nearly everything for our family of 5 plus our dog. My huge, red load monster of a backpack there is full of family history, children. It’s a Dana Design Astroplane, my mountaineering & expedition pack. Purchased in 1990. Backpacked with Big Bend National Park with Gwen when we came upon a pack of peccary javelinas rushing down the trail, scared up by two Yahoo young guys who looked at us and remarked, “Goddamn, y’all look like a buncha pregnant rhinoceroses!” Pissed us off then, but we laughed and went on to thruhike the Appalachian Trail in 1991, Gwen & I did. We climbed many mountain peaks together with the Seattle Mountaineers. I marched in the 1999 Battle of Seattle with it after Baby Kate dumped a bowl of chocolate birthday pudding atop her own head, and…well, it was destroyed in the 2010 Fire Too heavy anyway, and it served me & all of my Loved Ones well. Loved kissing my Beloveds, too. Life’s a grand ol’ mess, so dive in & enjoy the process!