[pct-l] Wisdom from an Elder

[hiker97 at aol.com]

TrailDust was driving home from one of her hikes in the Grand Canyon with Meadow Ed and friends.? As she was driving away from the Canyon and thinking what a scalawag Switchback was on the trip, she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road.?

She stopped the car and asked the Navajo woman if she would like a ride. 

With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car. Resuming the journey, TrailDust tried in vain to make a bit of small talk with the Navajo woman. The old woman just sat silently, looking intently at everything she saw, studying every little detail, until she noticed a brown bag on the seat next to TrailDust. 

"What's the in bag?" asked the old woman. 

TrailDust looked down at the brown bag and said, "Ohhh, it's a couple of bottles of?wine. I got it for my husband, Grizzly." 

The Navajo woman was silent for another moment or two. 

Then speaking with the quiet wisdom of an elder, she said: 

"Good trade....."