Rocks

Soap Lake has a lot of rocks. they are Lava rocks and are everywhere you look. Climbing up a rocky hill can be tricky as you slide down every few steps. one step up and slide down three.
You have to keep going up and try again.
It is a weird feeling to be falling down a lot. just cant get the momentum to go straight up.
It is like climbing a mountain of marbles.
There is something else like that.
new ideas.
you get one and it seems easy enough and totally doable but then here comes the slide when you experience the reality of playing out your plan. some things are beyond our control and will slide you down. but you cannot tell when that will happen . You just cant see the unstable places until you place your weight on them. When you find them you are already sliding down the hill again.
But what is the most true thing is this. You are going up the hill in the first place because it is tricky. anyone can go up a grassy hill.
But climbing up a marble rock hill is way way way more fun.
It seems impossible but eventually you get to enough steady rocks to get up. You have to figure out ways to trick the rocks to overcome the slide. you have to use your whole body to get up. You have to get cut up a little and you have to be scared a little when you look down but when you are done it is very satisfying. and you want to do it again.
so even though you have to redo your idea a million times to make it work. that is the fun of it. climb that hill ,beat that sucker down. You Can do it. eventually! what is the alternative. look at the hill your whole life. and then die!