Getting Away

Sometimes, I need to take a break.  Not just a break from working, or thinking, but a physical break from my current surroundings.  Just get away to a new, or sometimes even a familiar place, to shake up the mindset and start "seeing" things again.

Wupatki / Wukoki Ruins north of Flagstaff is just such a place for me.  I feel a kinship to the land and the dwellings there.  To stand on one of the high places, and look out across the land towards the painted desert on the horizon is simply breathtaking and puts everything in perspective.  I am reminded that I am not the center of the universe, merely an integral part of it... and there is something reassuring and peaceful in that knowledge.