Gauja

Last week i went canoeing on the Gauja River in Latvia. It is one of the most wild rivers in Europe (with the exception of the rivers in northern sweden and finland, which are too cold to canoe in May for sure- Latvia was stretching it). Basically it was the perfect combination of things- I forgot how much these things are essential to life:

Blooming lilac trees in the spring
Smelling honeysuckle flowers drooping over the sidewalk
Floating beneath ancient sandstone cliffs with a Panamanian hat to keep out the sun, while sipping from a box of cheap spanish wine
Conversations about God and the inticracies of relationship and what conversion really means over a campfire, roasting gobs of mini-marshmellows to make S(elga s)'mores
Riding on lazy Latvian trains through the pine forests
Speaking Russian every once in a while

Thank you Js for the random little things you rain down around us