Necessary Wanderings

Certainly, Freedonia is more than a small business in a big city. If anything it is a place. A place that is inside of us all. The inner domain with its gel-like walls is either nourished, thus one goes on to become a peace maker/ creator, or, this place, where consciousness  dares to dwell, contracts, squashed by the titans of the great panopticon. The dark giants may sell the mere low human snake oil always promising to cure the forever gaping, oozing wounds they/ we inflict on ourselves. Like the proverbial hamster caught in the wheel, forever trying to shop and consume until this inner place where a soul once swelled heals and once again becomes one with its Mother Earth. We've survived the 'inspired words of 'GO SHOPPIN' FOLKS' (thank you W!) when the cut was the deepest. That was over a decade ago. Yes, decades come and go and progress marches onward. If only the doctor still made house calls. And now, The Great HOPE has come to town with nare the holistic medicine for which our time calls. Nope. Our leaders are not receiving the message(s).

For me, nothing lifts me out of a place of wound baring victim-ville as a walk. This simple, free act can fill the void and connect me to the most mysterious place where the butterflies flit about their migratory path. Whether a fitness walk/ jog(arms propelling me forward) or a stroll(yes, I stop to smell the flowers), nothing else opens me up to finding my own power like a walk. Thank goodness Atlanta is becoming a very walkable city! We now have loads of trails, The Beltline being the most advertised. However, in our little community of Lake Claire there are several wonderful spaces to stretch one's legs. These pics are from last week when Rowan and I walked the one mile each way to Little 5's to fetch our water at our fave local co-op Sevenanda. My son, the forever serious traveler, contemplates H2O as we gaze upon the creek water that wanders through our 'hood.  Of course, there is nothing better than a morning stroll, coffee in hand, or an evening's sunset version (vino will do) in The Garden. These are the necessary places that we all must retrieve and demand time to wander...