The post-primary season here in New Hampshire has a little of the post-holiday feel to it … a little exhausted, a little deflated, a little anti-climactic. It’s the first time I’ve actually worked a primary for a candidate, and perhaps the fact that my candidate didn’t do well has something to do with my own feeling of letdown. I’ve been discouraged, it’s safe to say, for over a week now.
And then something extraordinary happened.
Two climbers were lost in blizzard conditions on Mount Hood a day or so ago. They created a snow-cave and survived the night, and were in cell phone contact with would-be rescuers; but they could not give their location, as they’d gotten lost the night before. But, amazingly, they came across a geocache … And every geocache includes a note with its GPS coordinates.
At a time when geocaching started to seem trivial to me (next to what I was seeing as a life-and-death political struggle), I read this account of it saving lives, and felt my heart opening all over again. There is good to be found everywhere, and those of us who pursue the hobby should be proud to be part of it.
In a couple of weeks I’ll be giving a talk for beginning geocachers at the Manchester City Library, and I know that the enthusiasm I’ve felt waning lately will be right there again.
And in the meantime, a very nice review of Open Your Heart with Geocaching has been picked up on the wires and is also, it has to be said, making me smile.
Maybe when you don’t want to open your heart, you should pause for a moment … because that may be the best time of all to do it!
– Jeannette Cézanne
http://www.JeannetteCezanne.com
Posted by: Geocaching, geocaching books, Opening the heart, Difficulty, Overcoming difficulty — jcezanne
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