Moonlight, Mountains and Swimming in Lakes

When I asked, "Well, who are you really?  Sum it up," he had this to say:

Recently I’ve been driving along with a harvest moon down through southern Colorado.  The land there is flat as a pancake for as far as I can see, and glowing with this beautiful light.  I’ve always believed you have to hang onto certain images that comfort or inspire you, because they mean something.  These can be anything.  For me it’s three things: moonlight, mountains and swimming in lakes. 

Here’s what I told Kylie (his youngest daughter and my little sister): “When you’re a grown-up someday and life gets weird and complicated, when you start feeling tweaked-out and desperate, like you’re on the verge of doing something crazy, find one of those images.  Go outside.  Search.  Do what you have to do or go where you have to go to get close to those images that have by now become part of who you are.”

I don’t know if that’s who I am, but I have those images in my head all the time.