Another Day!

I am happy.  The end of the semester is fast approaching and I will be done with this portion of my life and free to move on to other ideas of what my life can be.  My first thought is to go to the Florida Keys and turn and look back over my path  that has taken me from these mountains to the southern farthest point from these mountains.  Then, it is to visit St. Augustine.  The place of Geronimo's incarceration.  My purpose was to sit and imagine the emotions associated with going from one extreme to another, desert to ocean. I wanted to imagine what that felt like and to be able to occupy the same space and place as Geronimo did doing that era.

However, while writing this blog and posting the photograph of the mountains that are part of the southern border of the Indian reservation I grew up on...it seems possible that I may have already experienced that task.  For the Midwest is a very flat place and my relationship caused me some great isolation.  So, I watched the environment of the sky.  And the clouds and the effect of the ever breezing wind on this flat land.  It was also painful to see the disregard most people had for this land.  And it seems very heavy with the emotions of apathy.

So, I sit alone.  My mind is filled with the images of what may have been and why it was not to be in this passing era of my life. The time to move on arrived and I was ready but for the effect it would have on the others in my circle/s and that was my fault because of the fact that I empowered myself with a desire to move on from this place.  A desire that was rooted in a love for adventure, passion, experience, and a desire to have fun.  But as quick as empowerment arrives, it soon can be co-opted by those seeking power at the expense of others.  So," the waiting is always the hardest part" to quote a song from Tom Petty.  So, not to put my self in the same category as Geronimo, but isolation is a part of this experience and difference is too.  Mountains, flat lands, but the apathy seems very familiar.  So, when the last weeks of Spring are winding down on this campus.  My mind is going south.  My excitement unfettered!