Lost Maples

Celebrated a birthday in solitude over the weekend…. It’s still kinda hard to articulate why I push everyone away in the last part of the year. Thanksgiving, my Birthday, the Holidays and New Year are very difficult to push through in recent years. It has a lot to do with people who are no longer here to celebrate these events with and there’s a lot of resentment in not getting to spend it with people I really wanted to invest time and energy into. Truth be told, getting to just be by myself makes everything a lot easier to process. Its like I’m able to process a lot of the pain and murkiness I’m feeling inside at my own time and in my own space.

I originally planned to be in Las Vegas this weekend so that I could take in U2 at the Sphere. I was going to purchase some tickets earlier in the year just before video got released of what the Sphere performances looked like. Said tickets I had intended to purchase went up by 500 and flights into Vegas spiked so I opted to hit up the hill country and hiked Lost Maples on December 8th.

The park was kinda empty and the Maple Leaves had mostly fallen by early December, but the hike and trails were still rewarding. I got a chance to see the famed monkey rock and took some time to meditate at the grotto. The park has roughly 10 miles to hike and there’s sections i didn’t check out so i may go out again during the winter months to finish off the park with my Niece.