Thank you for the beautiful picture and wonderful words of advice.
Have you ever read "Cross Creek" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings? There is one paragraph I love most of all:
"Folk call the road lonely, because there is not human traffic and human stirring. Because I have walked it so many times and seen a tumult of life there, it seems to me one of the most populous highways of my acquaintance. Ihave walked it in ecstasy, and in joy it is beloved. Every pine tree, every gallberry bus, every passion vine, every joree rustling in the underbrush, is vibrant. I have walked it in trouble, and the wind in the trees beside me is easing. I have walked it in despair, and the red of the sunset is my own blood dissolving into the night's darkness. For all such things were on earth before us, and will survive after us, and it is given to us to join ourselves with them and to be comforted."
Your peaceful setting just reminded me of it.
Sara
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