windy, woodsy, tucked-behind-hillsy, lonely, comfort road. For good cries and bad cries, for quick escapes, losing herself in the leaves and the curves of steering wheel lilts and lulls. For speeding and not caring, hot tears. For wandering and wonder and hope and farewells and soon-I-hopes. For finding lost things. For private, in-car celebrating, and cogitating chords, spinning words round melodies. And healing most of all.
My name is Colleen.
I love taking my time and finding beauty and humour in things before they happen - as in seeds and salamanders.
"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back."
C.S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
"Look, it's not in my nature to be mysterious. But I can't talk about it and I can't talk about why."
Rusty Ryan - Ocean's Twelve
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8 Comments:
I'd love to drive this road in the spring or summer. I bet it's gorgeous!
It calls to me. I LOVE roads like that. I don't know why but I do.
It is a lovely road indeed. I do sincerely hope that it has gifted you hope and healing, if that is what you needed.
I'm quite certain there is an adventure waiting around that bend. Maybe some kind of spring time delight, holding some unknown epiphany, just waiting...waiting for the traffic to slow to reveal itself.
I'm just amazed that there were that many trees standing together to tree in one road up where you live. The original trees must have invited all the trees in NWT to band together--strength in numbers, and all that.
(Kidding!!!!)
Ha! Well, would it change things wildly for you if I said this road was in the heart of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania? :)
Well, it would certainly make a lot more sense!!!
this is MY road and I love that you posted about it. When I am back in Germany missing my loves, I will come here and remember. Thank you for getting me. I love you, friend.
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