A bucket list item of mine has always been to visit all of the National Parks, and yet somehow I never knew that there was one sitting in my own backyard this whole time: Acadia National Park.
Mark & I (and Henry) took this weekend to explore it & finally get working on that bucket list agenda & it was a truly wonderful, inspiring, & eye-opening experience.
While we did a few different hikes, one that we had been most looking forward to was the journey to see Bubble Rock, a boulder that a glacier left perched on the ledge of a cliff thousands of years ago. As I watched a group of tourists try to push it down, I entered into a deep moment of reflection. I know that eventually that rock will fall due to erosion, a natural occurrence…but what will be left of this beautiful park thousands of years from today? What will be left of it 50 years from now when I tell my grandchildren stories about this weekend? Will they even know what a National Park is?
It seems eerie that while I was having this enlightening and reflective trip, Senator John McCain passed away. I was never a huge John McCain fan, but I respected him immensely for crossing the party lines & openly speaking out against the president, knowing that that could potentially end his career. I won’t say anything more about the person sitting in the oval office other than this: if he has his way, I don’t think even my children will be able to experience and appreciate a National Park. That needs to change. We need to start caring more about the world we live in, especially in our own country. This is our home & it’s our duty to the future generations to keep it just as beautiful as it is today. America should always be known as “the Beautiful”.