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(or, stompin' in the rain, stompin' in the rain, what a glorious feeling...)

just got in from open fields 2005...eight hours for a 350 mile trip, thx to rain and road construction (and a 30 miinute wait while they cleared a fender-bender in louisville)...

just a quick note to thank everyone for the food, chiles, powders, and potions, stories, photos, memories and rememories...and of course thanks to our hosts, the inimitable james and the invisible (but still very much there) abby campbell and the adrian family, without whom this would just be a bunch of crazy people standing in a mud puddle...

i had a spiritial revelation while sitting by the campfire (actually a separate but equal campfire hosted by my nephew and his kids, who furnished a whole 'nother set of memories and a couple s'mores  --  sorry, gavin, but you've got competition, and a rough competition it is: a 4 and a 6 year old brother and sister team whose idea of making s'mores consists more of pyrotecnic displays of burning sugar than creating tasty treats, particularly when your little brother is discovered to have eaten all the chocolate bars)...but i digress...

i had a spiritial revelation, wherein i realized that i was completely content...for the first time in many years, i realized that the universe was in balance for me...my belly was full, my mind was at rest, my body so stressed from standing and bending that it was ready to accept total relaxation...i was content with the universe, and the universe changed its rating of me to 'not too shabby'...

yeah, it rained, and yeah the fields weren't what jim wanted them to be, and yeah, i missed the lamb kebabs and yeah, john t didn't get to unveil his secret weapon breakfast burritos, and yeah, after PROMISING ted that i would sample his cassolet and not doing it, even with all of that it was the best (for me) open fields yet...

hope everyone (or at least most everyone) else agrees...

cya in the fields in 2006...

no pain, no pain (moderate motto?)...

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