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Welcome to my little corner of the inter-webs! I just wanted to take this space to warn you that my posts will rarely be up to date. Due to the spontaneity of natural disasters and the unpredictability of when AmeriCorps' services will be requested I will be digitizing my journal entries whenever we return to St. Louis. Oh, and most of the pictures you see here were taken by myself. If ever I do use someone else's material I make a point to give them due credit though! That said, come, leave comments and be merry! I hope you enjoy your stay!

Friday, January 24, 2014

Current River - 1/18

We saw an eagle on our way to the project site.  The bird was huge—easily bigger than any of the ones I saw at Roaring River.  It escorted us to the pond and then flew off.  Do you believe in signs?  I’ve found a couple recently.  I found the Egyptian hieroglyph for life constructed out of a couple strands of hair on the wall in the shower.  Sorry.  TMI?  Anyways, today there was the eagle, a bird of spiritual significance to the Native Americans.  There was a third… ah well, can’t remember it.  But what do you think of these two?  Do you think they go together or stand independently?  If I had to piece them together, I’d say it may mean something along the lines of, “Your eyes only see so much, do not forget to look with your heart to bring clarity to life and its many decisions.”

16 trees today for those of you are keeping count.  Kind of surprised I scored that many with how gusty it became.  The wind pushed one of my Cedars right over my back cut.  I got lucky there as I was reaching for a wedge when it decided to go and land right next to me.  It was a smaller tree, but still, propelled by the air currents I could have been seriously hurt.  Maybe the hieroglyph was warning me that my life was in danger.  If that’s so, then maybe the eagle was a sign that someone was looking out for me.  Yeah, I’m probably being a little silly, but as I’ve said before and I will say again, life is more exciting to stroll through if one can entertain the possibility of magic.

The only other development is that we have been informed that our 10 day is actually an 11 day.  We were only given funds for 10 days and they called it a 10 day in the office so we were a little taken aback by this revelation.  The whole team is sore and we seriously considered taking tomorrow off to recover and go back Friday.  After much contemplation, we’ve decided we’re going to try and power through.  This is the second 10 day I’ve been on that has been extended… guess they know that when I’m out in the field stuff gets done!


Hope you’re all having a great weekend!  Night!





Danielle!  My pictures.


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