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Although we'll be moving again soon, I'm becoming enamored with this tiny town we moved to in January. It's nice in the spring and summer.
I've never lived so far out in the boondocks before. Driving to and from our house to get ANYWHERE, I quickly learned to numb my senses as we passed by endless fields of tall grasses, an occasional barn, an occasional tree.
But something I noticed last week during one of those heretofore mind-numbing drives...I had a song come to my mind. I'll tell you what the song was in a second. But let me tell you that all at once everything came alive. The green and brown grasses were dancing in the breeze. The trees were singing praise to nature. The endless blue skies framed and complemented it all. Every element of nature was inseparable and beautiful.
It brought to mind part of the Cade novel toward the beginning when all of nature was singing praises to their Creator. Yes, I've felt this before and I was feeling it then. The song, "All Creatures of Our God and King" came to my mind like angels were singing praise.
I like it out here.
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This morning before my family woke up, I had a bit of extra energy because of all the incessant eating I did yesterday. I knew I could lay in bed and let the calories settle into globs of fat, or I could go outside for a lovely morning walk and put those calories to use. It took me about two hours to finally get out of bed (oh, the drudgery of getting dressed, the possibility of being attacked while I'm walking alone outside in the sunrise ~~not likely though~~ are thoughts that kept me from taking off earlier), but at 6am I was off.
Dang, what a beautiful place we live in. It's hard to notice when it's so flat and brown and untamed in broad daylight. But the sunrise was magnificent. I had a lovely walk. I walked quickly, savoring the fresh air and breathing it in deeply to fill my lungs with its purity. Geese were waking up at the pond. The sun hadn't quite peeked over the horizon, but its glow was already filling the east. No buildings block the horizon in this town. Once you get out of the neighborhood, about a 2-minute walk, it's prairies all the way to the horizon.
I had to head home though because my husband was leaving for work soon and I had to be home with my sleeping son. It's only right y'know. After cooling down a bit I couldn't get those beautiful images out of my mind and I felt the need to capture this morning. So I went out and made a quick little movie to remember this place by.
I hope that link up there works.
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It looks like we'll be moving next year. Where we're going, I can't be sure. It's the nature of my husband's job. And whether or not I'll be able to go with him is another question entirely. I may have to shack up with family somewhere. But I'm enjoying life one day at a time. And this sort-of pretty town.
