A Grand Story

A friend from AA/Al-Anon called me Friday afternoon.
He was feeling a little emotional,
wanted to hang out and asked if I was available.
I said I was.

He "winters" in Arizona from Iowa every year,
and has done this for many years.
He told me in all of his visits
he has never seen the Grand Canyon.

The next morning I called him.
I told him the Canyon was right in our back yard.
He said he couldn't go without making a plan.

I said, "This is the plan...come over and get in my car."
Being noon he thought it was too late to leave.
I told him the worse thing that could happen
is we'd see the canyon at sunset.

"But it's suppose to rain," he said.
"It won't rain that high up," I rebuttled,
"It will snow and be even prettier."

So he conquered his fear of heights and spontaneous fun
and went with me to visit one of the
Seven Wonders of the World.

We trudged the path on our happy adventure.

Explored new places and learned new things.

Made friends with the wild life.

Thought of all the layers of contempt prior to investigation
that we could overcome. Who could ever be bored with the
nature, eco-system, different sciences that could
enlighten us from such a beautiful spot.

After spending the day there, he said, "I've never just
taken off in my car to do anything like this before."
I smiled, happy that we did.

All of these picture were taken
with my cell phone camera!