A FACT OF LIFE: EVERYBODY FALLS

During some of the days in which I was home this past winter in Colorado (during some of December and some of January), I went cross-country skiing. As the new year dawned in January, I drove to the top of the mountain that overshadows the Grand Valley, the Grand Mesa. It rises 6,000 feet above the valley floor so the top is over 11,000 feet in elevation. By the way, it is the world’s largest flat-top (mesa) mountain— with 1,300 lakes on top and hundreds of miles of Nordic tracks and cross-country paths. And when the sky is a brilliant blue and the sun is shining (which is most of the time), it’s a great place to ski.