Keep on the journey, whatever you do, but climb the right ladder

“People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success 

only to find, once they reach the top, 

that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall” 

Thomas Merton

"Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy 

and abnormal which robs 

the second half of life of its purpose."

 C. G. Jung

The above stylized, Photoshop image above includes my photo taken last spring in Taos Pueblo, an indigenous village over 1000 years old, and a photo I took this morning of the crown of a sumac silouetted against a weak November sun trying to pierce the turgid sky.