after hours and days and weeks of driving i was almost there
i cracked the window against the pure black night
and a stream of crystal cool mountain air poured into the car
i drank it in with my whole body and relaxed all my bones
aaaahh…i was home
not to my house. Not to my town and friends and family
but to the purity and precious harmony of the mountain wilderness
powering down the car with its electric lights and rumbling motor
i was left in the darkness
raw in the face of the cosmos
cradled between the cool black Earth and the star soaked Sky
and i remembered…
an openness in my heart…a softness in my mind…
a listening beyond my ears
a YESness in my being
and something quiet…almost unperceivable and utterly ineffable
