K Demon Laughs at Time

(This is my first attempt to add a picture to the blog). I went exploring in Finney County today in search of a vague memory from junior high and a field trip where we stopped to look at a headstone with a laughing demon. This headstone appears at the head of a circle of 4 other stones. The others have names on them apparently of people who died on the Civilian Conservation Corps project which is to the southwest of this site. It's a dam with limestone rock and a "lake" which rarely, if ever, fills with water. The missing part of this stone says "to those who served camp kinney". If anyone has any alternate descriptions for the head on top of the marker I would be happy to hear about them. Although, the head seems strangely appropriate, an alternative explanation might be more comforting.

I was thinking with wonder later about the joy of discovery. Pondering how many other people had discovered this spot and how many people had known about it all along. It reminded me in a strange way of going to New York City. There are so many people who live there, and there are so many times that I've seen the places in movies and TV. Yet, the act of going there myself and riding the subway, seeing the Metropolitan Museum of Art, walking across the Brooklyn Bridge, created a newness for those places that existed only for me and only in that moment. In some ways every moment is different even if you're doing the exact same thing with a 20 year span of time between the two visits.