Camelback

Despite the ennui you might THINK you see on Splash's 14yr old face, she's actually THRILLED to have been a poster dog for my fundraising efforts for my TOMS Shoe Drop trip to Argentina.

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm hoping to find some meaning and truth in commonalities across my two very diverse trips this month:  the world-famous Inn at Camelback Spa with a dear college friend vs rural villages of Argentina with 14 strangers.  

Sitting in a luxurious robe with 5 other women waiting quietly to be called into our "treatment" rooms, I looked around at the faces, the jewelry, the body language and the choice of reading material. With wide gaps in income, education, health care and opportunities open to them, are these American women happier than their impoverished Argentinian counterparts?  Do they feel more secure in themselves?   Do they feel more or less love and joy? 

I wished I'd broken the polite silence that, despite sitting next to one another naked under identical robes,  seemed an unwritten rule.   I'd have asked the dark headed botoxed beauty next to me, "If happiness could be measured on a scale of 1-10 with 1=none and 10=complete, how would you rate your life?  And if she'd asked the same of me?   Hmmm....dunno....

...But sitting here as the leaves fall like golden flakes from the Colorado aspens I'd say it's a 6, nah... 7.