“When evening falls so hard
I will comfort you
I’ll take your part, oh, when darkness comes
And pain is all around
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down”
– Simon & Garfunkel
Snow melting in the higher elevations and pouring rain in the lower. February in Zion can be treacherous with flooding, rock slides, and falling ice.
Zion is still insanely beautiful nonetheless.
“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!”
– Thomas Hood
“Hello darkness, my old friend,
I’ve come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence”
– Simon & Garfunkel
“Take It easy, take it easy
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels
drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
don’t even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
and take it easy”
– Eagles
“Now I taught the weeping willow how to cry,
And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you Big River.
Then I’m gonna sit right here until I die.”
– Johnny Cash
“And so we’re running just as fast as we can
Holding on to one another’s hand
Trying to get away into the night
And then you put your arms around me
As we tumble to the ground and then you say
I think we’re alone now
There doesn’t seem to be anyone around
I think we’re alone now
The beating of our hearts is the only sound”
– Tommy James and the Shondells
“Well I know what’s right
I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin’ me around
But I’ll stand my ground
And I won’t back down”
– Tom Petty
“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work,
from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”
– Henri Matisse
“I’ll be what I am
A solitary man”
– Neil Diamond
“An old cowboy went riding out one dark and windy day
Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way
When all at once a mighty herd of red-eyed cows he saw
Plowing through the ragged skies and up a cloudy draw”
– Johnny Cash
