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Yesterday on PBS I watched a few minutes of a show that was all about several of our National Parks. It spoke about the treasure these are for each one of us and how we need to care for them and protect them. Within the space of just a few minutes, I had virtually visited Olympia National Park in Washington, Glacier National Park in Montana, Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming and the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. I would love to see these (I’ve seen a couple of these) and many others in real life.

As I thought about the title of the show, Timeless, I recalled a book I have only half read. The book, The Man Who Walked Through Time, is about one man’s journey on foot through the Grand Canyon. He talked about being absorbed by thoughts of time. How “timeless” things can seem when you are alone in a canyon. How the way we use our time when in the “outside” world differs from the way he used and noted time while in the canyon. He also was drawn by thoughts of his own place in time. His own twenty or thirty years were minuscule in light of the ages that were drawn on the face of the cliffs of the canyon.

The dual ideas of timelessness and walking through time were fascinating to me as I ruminated over the weaving of these two thoughts. I guess time has always been a fascinating idea to me and many other people over the course of history. We love to dream about traveling through time. I think Colin Fletcher may have had the idea that he indeed was traveling through time while walking the timeless wonder of the canyon.