walking

I was feeling sorry for myself today. For no good reason. It happens to us all sometimes. I knew that I needed to go take a walk. I put it off several times before I got up from my desk and went outside.

 

It's a beautiful October day. One of those fall days between rains, the sun is shining, the air is cool. And I wondered if I picked a spot on the farthest hill, the one way off in the distance, if I couldn't just get to it eventually if I started walking that direction. A silly notion sure, but what a lovely adventure that would be.

 

I wasn't alone anymore. The killdeer danced around me. Their shrill cries at my intrusion made me smile a little to myself. They are silly birds but I can count on them to always be around when I finally take a walk. I noticed a butterfly. Half-wished that it might fly toward me and light on my hand. One of these days that wish might come true.

 

And I realized what a difficult time the pretty little thing was having. Its flight struggled just a few inches from the asphalt. The wind was too rough. Here and there he'd light on the pavement to get momentum up to carry on. And then I stopped still because sometimes the lesson will do that to you.

 

Creator, I will carry on, no matter how difficult the winds.

Reviews

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. oh, it's fantastic to read these words again, emily ... i don't even know why i'm carrying on ... and why i have been carrying on since 10th july, 2009 ... the days get darker ... and so does the hope that there'll be light in the future ... but still there are words ... there's you ... and i think ... maybe this is a fantastic story ... and this is the part when it frightens the audience ... but ultimately there'll be a happy ending ... maybe there's more to life than pain ... we can't really say until those last few moments before we die ... so might as well carry on and see what happens ...

- serah

[cartera]

I'm not a religious person, but I know a thing or two about writing: you write very well. Very very well in fact.
I'll say no more.
ATB
ALEX.

[Alicante lullaby]

lovely write,like gentle breeze,it was a fountain and iam drenched,it is lovely to see something so simple and soothing,very tenderly written,it is very Emily and once again you have lovely eyes,

[Fran Marie]

A very inspiring piece, so nicely penned with a great message therein

good job on this onE!!

[An owl on the moon]

This is such a beautiful, lifting, hopeful write, taking us all on a journey of discovery through loneliness to peace. Thank you for these precious words...

[Touché Armada]

I just love it, its soft and pillow-ie/y
I thought about something today.. omg I know how stupid, but I did it anyway, anyhow I thought about the white noise a waterfall makes and if you close your eyes and the mist hits your face its like you might be flying and the water might be trillions of stars, but that wasnt really what I thought just how I felt, I thought, wind water fire and earth it all makes a kind of white noise its such a constant you couldnt think anything in its presents and thats what makes it kind of nice. Now about that poem... It's such a nice piece of prose you just want to think it's images very thoughtfully and not too much else, and it's worth a revisit, very nice Emily.

[TL Boehm]

this one gave me shivers...well done. I don't often get a connection like that - an epiphany when surrounded by office walls - but this was profound.

[Dezaraye]

I love this. Sometimes when I'm having a horrible day, a walk is just the thing to cure it. God always sends us the messages He needs us to get. I'm glad you were paying attention and passed it on so that I could benefit, too.

[LJW]

Emily, how beautiful. Just simple and beautiful.

[Raef C. Boylan]

Hey, I learnt something right here: there are birds called 'killdeer' [and do they? gulp].
It's good that you found a solution to the self-pity, and nice that you found it in nature.

p.s.
"It's flight struggled" [Its]

[Anthony M Smith Jr]

Beautiful and very inspiring! I like the way you think and some day when I grow up I want to be just like you! Walking around Creation does that to most people. Most people miss the little things plus they never want to give up the worries and concerns, they think it is a badge of honor or something, ennit?
TT-TTO-NI-K
Elk