Every Indian Creek Clinic has something unique, that makes it a memorable time. In the weeks and days leading up to this October’s clinic, I was getting nervous that we’d all be much, much too hot in the desert this year. Temps were reaching 90 degrees every day all through September, and I was starting to wonder if we were permanently stuck in August?!

We got to do all the things we love to do at these events—taping hands up, jamming hands and feet and other parts into cracks, turning face climbers into crack climbers!, eating good food, playing music around a fire…and then, coming totally out of nowhere as far as I was concerned…. we got to see the aurora borealis!!!!

For me, that was truly a once in a lifetime experience, and I would have missed it completely had we not been camping out together at Indian Creek. Just another reminder of how small we are, and how magical the universe is.