[Marsha]
> No. I am definitely not a water-baby. I am a child
> of fire. Although I was an excellent firstmate,
> sailing for many years
> on Long Island Sound. Never a captain, only a sun
> worshiper. I
> bought a rowboat, but it was stolen three days after
> I put it into
> the water. I love the lake, and the birds that
> visit once the
> summer crowd has gone.
My wife and her mother have a cottage on a lake
in eastern Pennsylvania on Lake Wallenpaupack. Last
time we went we brought our canoe. We fell asleep
early that first night and I wanted to go out on the
lake in the canoe so much I awoke bright eyed that
night and left. I kissed my wife and said I'll be
back. I went out onto the lake with a flashlight
handy and the stars... the stars were tiny dots of
white. I paddled to where a creek was flowing into
the lake were many trees rooted and branched. I sat
in the canoe and got it lodged in shallow water in the
sand. I meditated. The creek loudness. The
quietness of the lake. The occasional warm breeze on
the cool morning.
[SA previously]
> > And as to you sometimes "...long(ing) to be
> on a mountaintop...", maybe the Adirondack
Mountains?
> Have you been to them before?
[Marsha]
> The only big mountain I've ever been on (that I
> remember) was Mount
> Teide on Tenerife. It was an unusually clear, sunny
> day. Picnic and
> reading Lorca (translation), not gazing at the
> stars. The landscape
> was very lunar. I think it is a volcano. The
> Adirondacks are a
> chain of mountains, but it is hard for me to
> remember those little
> crayon maps I made in elementary school. Tell me
> about the Adirondacks.
Oh... where to begin. This is when I desire for
more poetic words that reach into the crevasses of the
valleys and the rounded peeks that sky high in an
undulating wave shadowing little hidden places where
the coolness of a faint distance winter might still
lurk while summer is the season. I live where hills
go up and down quickly, but this allows for numerous
hiding places where valleys and hollows shelter
wanderers from the world in such a way that the rest
of the world becomes a pretend place, a place nowhere
near the current walk. The Adirondack Mountains on
the other hand, do the same, but they are not only
mountain tops and valleys that cut the rest of the
world off. They are whole worlds unto themselves on
each little flat on the side of the mountain hidden in
the trees, or the huge valley where a rock wall that
skies high in the horizon that wide views are
immediately turned into an earth sunward, which deems
these travels not just large, but humbling.
gaints,
SA
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