When values are clear, decisions are easy.
Roy E. Disney

From a distance, the world looks blue and green and the ocean meets the stream. Values seem clear. Decisions are easy. The Northwest is far enough to get this clear view.

It’s my second arrival here in less than one week. I don’t need a third time to realise how lucky I am.

The views here are second to none and the horizon is so far, far away. There is nothing standing in the way. Nothing to distract.

For the first time, there is a summer festival on with a big market, big rides, big sculptures, and big gates made of simple palettes.

This is as good as it gets. This is what counts. We are together. Alive. Living. Taking it all in. Sharing it amongst us.

I lost three of these days last week because there was an important man I had to meet.

Managing on their own over those three days was not easy for those I had left behind.

We’ll find out over the coming days and weeks, whether it was worth it.

If you have a few minutes, listen to the most wonderful, young, magic voice of Nancy Griffith singing one of the most poignant songs you could listen to these days.

From a distance, we all have enoughAnd no one is in needAnd there are no guns, no bombs, and no diseaseNo hungry mouths to feed

How happy we could all be if we managed to get that distance between us and the reality ‘on the ground’. Or better, if we realised that even being near each other we could live together without guns, bombs, disease, injustice, and hunger.

The world would look blue and green and the ocean would meet the stream.