Reflections

Sometimes there seems to be no end of the writing I must do each month. In the first 3 weeks of March, I have written over 40 thousand words in liability analysis reports, plus an additional 20 thousand on this year’s supplement to Slip and Fall Practice. Each winter and spring is catch-up time for all of regular chores and the special ones that seem to pop up out of nowhere. I still have another 70 to 80 thousand words to go before the 2009 supplement is finished. With case travel to Northern California, Northern and Southern Nevada, Texas, Michigan and Canada scheduled for the next couple of months, I will be pushed a little to finish the manuscript for early sumer publication.

Case evaluations now take much more time since I am now cross referencing scholarly and scientific papers and treatises in the body of the reports. I spend more time now in research and study than when I was in graduate school.

On stormy weekends, like this one, I try to take a break from writing and sit back and reflect on both the profession and my own plans for the future. By now, regulars know my motto: Ancora Imparo ( Yet I learn!) so my study into the research in human behavior and safety interaction is likely to continue well into the future. The law, of course, is a dynamic being and demands constant review.

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My escape from all of this is to take my best friend, Cody, and a camera or two and a handful of lenses and wander off into the wilderness. When I do not have the time to get up to our Eastern Sierra home, a local substitute for beauty is needed. My wife and I, and a couple of dogs drove to the northern slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains in the Angeles National Forest where we found Jackson Lake nestled in a small valley. The lake has a healthy growth of tule and cattails. While sitting along the bank near the still water, I noticed the reflections of the plants in the water. It was pretty, but then magic happened; a male Mallard duck swam through the small lagoon creating ripples in the water. The photograph above is the result.

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Even ordinary pretty things can become something wonderful when an innocent or even trivial event happens to stir things up, often resulting in the unimagined.

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