[MD] Suicide vs. Solutions

[Heather Perella]

     [Marsha]
> I like being on the lake, yet among the trees.  But
> some people like 
> the wide open spaces.  They want to see sky to the
> horizon.  I've 
> enjoyed that too.  Been thinking of the mountains
> lately.

     Since we're talking about solutions, don't get me
started on mountains... oh I love the Adirondack
Mountains.  I want to live there, but I want to stick
around my mother and my wife's mother.  Yet, I often
talk with my wife about how it would be my ultimate
dream to live in the Adirondack Mountains.  The snow,
the many backpacking trails, even the town life is
dominated by the mountains.  It's a lovely place. 
I've only been there twice, and I've been to many
other east of the Mississippi River regions, but
nothin' beats the Adirondacks for places I've been. 
I've even been to St. Johns at the Virgin Islands, but
first and foremost is those mountains.  My grandpa
lived in an Italian valley surrounded by mountains. 
He talked about fishin' in the mountain streams and
watching winter come, as the snow came down the
mountains until one day it was snowin' in the valley -
winter.


     [Marsha]
> Let's see.  The work started in September with a
> bumper crop of 
> acorns, and a storm last week left the trees
> completely bare.   Many, 
> many, many bags.   This year it was more enjoyable
> than ever 
> before.  It wasn't gumption as much as it was
> surrender.

     Ahhh, the acorns and leaves fall and you can't
stop it - surrender.

     [Marsha] 
> Now I'm looking forward to the snow.  I like to
> shovel the snow in 
> the middle of the night.  I plug into some music and
> dance my way 
> through it.  It's quite splendid to be in a
> snowstorm or surrounded 
> by moonlit snow.  Maybe listening to Gordon
> Lightfoot or John 
> Williams.  I'll set my ipod to shuffle, and just
> shovel.

     That's why I love the mountains or northern
regions.  I get snow here, but it doesn't fall enough
for me.  We've had some fall already, but nothing
stayed on the earth.  I love those cold, snowy nights.
 I go outside, bring a blanket and sit in the snow on
the blanket.  I drink hot tea or coffee, and the
quiet... oh that wonderful quiet... you can hear the
soft, peaceful, pin-drop dreams of this earth and sky
full of animal critters walking along in the woods. 
In the morning, seenin' animal tracks.  I love this
season.

woods,
SA


 
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