: Back to Basics
Hello all.
Mind's been getting dusty lately. Decided it needed a walk. Drove to Qual Hollow, walked around the trails for three hours. Ideas muddled as I walked through the mud. Desires build as I climbed a tree that fell across the trail.
I tried to draw the pretty scenery. Needless to say, the sketchbook is going to be burned immediately. I came up with some different story ideas, that I doubt I'll be able to write it all out in the next year. But what mattered out of all this? Well, here it is . . .
I've spent so much time worrying about school and Tricia and work and everything else. Even driving up there, my mind was racing between by Writer's Block, my decision about AI and the-bad-bad-evil-thing that's coming back to haunt Tricia once more.
As I walked those trails, seeing God's handiwork, I felt the wieghts slowly coming off. For a moment - maybe - I walked in an empty part of the trail with no one else even relatively near me. The great pine trees surrounded my position and the afternoon sun shined through the pines, casting a slightly purple tint over the whole area. But the sunlight above me lit the way.
Time stopped and I don't think I've ever walked so slowly in my entire life. Not because I was tired - but because I WANTED to. I walked slowly, taking it all in and realizing just how wonderful these moments are. For a brief moment, nothing else mattered and relished in it.
The moment ended and God set me back on my course.
Clarity.
And as soon as I left Qual Hollow, I was on the phone with Tricia, who just had an awful day. My shoulder is offered for something for her to to cry. With all the stress I've been under, this may have just been a bad thing for me. But - no, I bared her weight with her.
And then I went home.
~W~
Hello all.
Mind's been getting dusty lately. Decided it needed a walk. Drove to Qual Hollow, walked around the trails for three hours. Ideas muddled as I walked through the mud. Desires build as I climbed a tree that fell across the trail.
I tried to draw the pretty scenery. Needless to say, the sketchbook is going to be burned immediately. I came up with some different story ideas, that I doubt I'll be able to write it all out in the next year. But what mattered out of all this? Well, here it is . . .
I've spent so much time worrying about school and Tricia and work and everything else. Even driving up there, my mind was racing between by Writer's Block, my decision about AI and the-bad-bad-evil-thing that's coming back to haunt Tricia once more.
As I walked those trails, seeing God's handiwork, I felt the wieghts slowly coming off. For a moment - maybe - I walked in an empty part of the trail with no one else even relatively near me. The great pine trees surrounded my position and the afternoon sun shined through the pines, casting a slightly purple tint over the whole area. But the sunlight above me lit the way.
Time stopped and I don't think I've ever walked so slowly in my entire life. Not because I was tired - but because I WANTED to. I walked slowly, taking it all in and realizing just how wonderful these moments are. For a brief moment, nothing else mattered and relished in it.
The moment ended and God set me back on my course.
Clarity.
And as soon as I left Qual Hollow, I was on the phone with Tricia, who just had an awful day. My shoulder is offered for something for her to to cry. With all the stress I've been under, this may have just been a bad thing for me. But - no, I bared her weight with her.
And then I went home.
~W~