A few weekends back, I heard that the first horse packing trip of the year was leaving from the Ike Livermore Pack Station on Friday before classes were out–so I headed up to see how it all was going (a couple of my students were in the mix).

I asked, “Anyone got a camera here for the trip?”
“Nope.” “No–sorry.” “Uh-uh.”

Mike Swan, Assistant Director of the Horse Program, tying down a bridle over the saddle horn, looked up: “Don’t worry about that, Joy. They’ll  have images seared into their memories. They can write about it all when they get back.”

Sounds good to this teacher of English. Words will work.