The city is windy, today. Certainly noisy, everyday, Compared to my country life.
Tall buildings glimmer, Streets boisterous with sounds of people and machines. Excitement! Opportunity! Urgency!
Country life, by comparison, stiller, Slo wer, Ex pan sive.
Both are good I tell myself. I am still flexible, I tell myself.
Then, verily it dawns on me, with unfamiliar panic and relief, that my stretching-bending days are over.
I want to ride like the wind to where my being has despite itself, taken root. Where the nomad has inadvertently pitched A more permanent tent.
30 years after roaming ill-suited ground my Restless Soul was cleverly tricked to settle where nature, in all her glory and quiet magnificence, crowds the land.
Amen.
Realizing the nomad has taken root, many years after.