© Cathy de Moll
What I noticed was the silence that comes through the open windows only a few times a year, the quiet that descends when everybody else goes "to the lake." The steady, background hum of city life suddenly suspends itself like a switch has gone off, and those few of us left behind have the city to ourselves.
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This is a hero story. At an age when, frankly, most of us are slowing down both our bodies and our commitments, my friend Sylvia Burgos Toftness has launched a new and ambitious venture.
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Some of the 1990 Trans-Antarctica Expedition staff gathered to visit British team member Geoff Somers (seated) when he came to town June 6, 2015. Front left: Pat Braski, Deb Gandhorn, Jennifer Gasperini, Paula Berglund-Swanson, Cathy de Moll, Steve Buetow. Back left: Hans Buetow, Dave Sheild, JuliePeters-Wright, Deanna Peterson-Mello, Cynthia Mueller, Jim Gasperini
Perhaps it is right that we recognize our lives' most important moments and people only in retrospect. Circumspection breeds clarity. Context comes with time. What we can only understand from a longer perspective is that the prodigious talent, good will, inspired purpose and remarkable good fortune conspire rarely to such great effect. So when they do, I urge us all to recognize their worth and celebrate!
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