"Touching The Same Cairn....."

Similar weather, such a familiar route.

The same sea of summits, views from memories too...

Ageless rocks of a cairn, holding close an old summit register.

Trembling some as it is opened...

And there, the same hand writing, now as back then.

Both words and paper faded; though meanings still so vibrant...

Then the simple placing of a few Summit Stones, and moments for quiet reflection.

Touching the same cairn, now with older lined hands,

Much greyer of hair as well,

Being tempered of energy,

Yet not of spirit.

So many years have passed,

To return to where it all began.....

DSD

My sincere appreciation to S. Abegg for the top image above, and to R. Ingraham for the lower image.