10/15/2010- Walking Up Hill

AHHHH!!! I can't believe it has been so long since I've last written.  So many things have breezed through my mind during the splendor that was this summer and fall, and yet I have not found time to sit and write.  Today is different.  I took Stella for a walk at two mile farm today and it brought me back to what I love.  The introspective outlook I gain there is astounding.  I forgot how much I love the beauty of the woods, the friends I have made there and the joy I see, in Stella's steps when we arrive.  There is little I can compare it to.  It is enlightening and invigorating at the same time.  It rekindled my creative fire that dulled during the summer's heat, but is now ready to burn a new bridge, so to speak.  On the agenda, college essays, high school reunions, taking stalk of my present state and moving forward to explore and embrace new territories where the old comforts are no longer readily accessible but always treasured.  Somtimes it is harder to walk up hill, than it is to run a flat course, but while the comfort of the perdictable and steady dissipate, the thrill of a different challenge that requires a strained variety of patience, perseverance, and power brings with it a new and higher level of accomplishment.  I start the journey, now, wish me strength!!