Pain: The Universal Constant
Over the Holiday break our family had the opportunity to head up to our cabin in the nearby Sequoia national forest for a snowy night in the woods. For us, the cabin is a magical place providing distance from the frenetic pace of “regular” life in a place full of comfort, love, warmth and connection with nature and with each other. The roads had been cleared of snow, or so we thought, and we made plans to head to dinner at the local restaurant. But on our drive through the small community we came upon a patch of ice and got stuck. Unable to get any traction we spent over an hour attempting to put on the new, fancy, self-tightening snow chains. After plenty of frozen hands, laying on the ice, and lots of slippery feet pushing on the back of our car, it was determined those chains were just not going to fit. Thanks to a local and a shovel we managed to rock the car enough to get it going while the rest of us walked the remaining ¼ mile to the restaurant....