There's more to this story. There is the child behind me having a bit of a meltdown from exhaustion and worry about the fading light. And ahead of me there is another child who has skied ahead to retrieve a dropped water bottle and who is about to take a wrong turn and head off for a few yards in the wrong direction, then turn and come speedily back to me, a bit scared and frantic looking. And there's the rest of the family who have already headed back toward the car. So it was not a perfect moment.
But it was a moment. In the woods. When the light changed for just a few brief seconds. And we all noticed it, quieted, and paused.
That's what we went there for. And what I am going to remember.
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