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Controlled Forest Fire, Fort Christmas Park, FL

We passed a prescribed national forest burning on our way out of Titusville.  The fire was almost to the highway-I wonder if it’s hard to keep it under control sometimes.  It was pretty big.

We are at Fort Christmas Park to relax a while now.  This is where the Seminole Indians used to live.  Chris & I are taking a little time to ourselves.  My mind feels like my own again, it is a wonderful feeling, like fresh air.  We were discussing some of our differences on the drive over.  I like to have time to focus on what is already in my mind, while he says he needs to not be bored-to be exposed to things on a regular basis. A comfortable silence, for me, is an opportunity to think.  He, on the other hand, would prefer to have the radio on pretty much constantly.  We find solutions and compromises along the way (earplugs, headsets), but I think empathy is the most important ingredient-not expecting the other person to be exactly like you…which is always easier said than done!

This is a beautiful area.  I sit at a brown painted picnic table, there are real wood rocking chairs outside the visitor center, neat wood cabins, beautiful large trees with Spanish Moss (yes, I finally learned what it was called) draping down them, a small orange tree, an ant crawling up my arm…