A trip down memory lane
There is a third dimension to travelling, the longing for what is beyond.”( Jan Myrdal )
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Blogger and I arent seeing eye to eye at the moment, this is the third attempt to post this with music playing lightly in the background as you read…….it is not to be, but undaunted…….onward and upward..
This song does wonderful things to me…it evokes and transports me back to days of childhood and memories of that lovely innocence and freedom that I could experience back then. Growing up in the countryside was a blessing, it had its drawbacks certainly as home tended to be rather remote and isolated, too far for friends to visit and transport albeit non existent back then. However the plus side was that I learnt to be alone without fear and even enjoy that sense of solitude
I grew up close to nature……it has a language of its own I believe, unspoken, yet very real….days were spent wandering lush green fields, laying under blue skies watching the cloud formations in all their many forms and variety, warm breezes wafting across my face and the heat of that glorious sun…….I used to love to explore, hunger being the only thing to call me back home. I learnt about the seasons and their gifts, the colourful autumns, preparation for sleep and rest, the silence and stillness of winter, the new births of spring, the lambs frollicking, the harvesters under the full moon, the men working the land, the animals my friends. I was very seldom struck by lonliness.
Imagination was cultivated through lack of toys, but my love of nature called first, so it didnt matter. These memories carry with them that sense of freedom…..perhaps from the responsibilities that as adults we cant avoid, also of the innocence that kept company with the not so innocent that I experienced throughout my childhood, today I value them still as they had the power to carry me through, above and beyond whatever happened.
So why do they matter today, I ask myself now, what do they matter in relation to travel. We cant go back, that I know, yet I also know part of me longs to re-experience this. To have some time just being, without care……no phones, no noise, no traffic, no responsibility other than to sit and be with the landscape once more, for a short time……..and the animals..No doing for a while other than experience what the time and world has to show me….Bliss!!
And then to journey back home a pocket full of memories and a happy heart.
