I have had some complaints that I have not blogged in a while. Sorry, I did not realize that I have that much of a following, my bad. But to my credit I have been blogging, it was just the old school way on paper. So here it is. Yes it is a little old but hopefully it will do. Before I do, I will give credit where credit is due. This is not one of my pictures. D'Kota took it but it WAS with my camera so I will use it as if it is mine; I'm sitting here in Joseph. OR. Being surrounded by so many things, mixed together, making me feel alive, asleep, stuck, in a dream. A little like standing in a hall way and at every turn a door way leading to all these things. I am at a wrestling tournament which in it's self is familiar but this one is not. So many things make it unfamiliar at the same time. The smallness of the teams. The hosting team only has 4 wrestlers which makes our team of one of those things that has become familiar in the way that we stand out at other tournaments, now unfamiliar because we don't here. This place is also very supportive of wrestling which is unfamiliar to us even though we come from a place that has big teams. I have not stepped into a High School gym that has so much wrestling signs in it. Even the music they play to get the boys pumped up is familiar in the fact that it is 80's music but unfamiliar in that it is not the hard rock music I am use to blocking out at the tournaments of past. Yesterday I noticed a disturbing unfamiliar thing. Huntington has made my mind familiar with always being on guard for vulgar words of simple minds so as I sit here, I become aware of my doing that but not needing to. I can relax into an old familiar way of being at tournaments. Even though as we drove thru this town I did not spot a Mormon church! Not in any of the small towns we went through are there Mormon Churches, unfamiliar. But the respect is here from the teenagers which has sadly become unfamiliar. I am also surrounded by things that I knew existed and knew were going to some day happen and things I only hoped would happen. So many people wearing Idaho Vandals clothing because we are in an area that wrestles with Moscow, something that I knew was out there making it familiar but SEEING it, unfamiliar. Knowing that one day D'Kota would grow-up into a man, familiar. SEEING it right in front of my eyes, unfamiliar but familiar at the same time. Things that I hoped to see, D'Kota being the kind of person that is not afraid of being "the only" and standing out. Good to see and wonderful that it is becoming familiar.
