I'm not sure why I'm saying all this here and now, suffice to say the internet has become a virtual bus, as well (which was not always so.)
So, hello, stranger. How's the weather where you are? I am here, in Summit County, Colorado, where this morning I woke to snow dusting my deck. Welcome to the high country, they say. Well, you kind of have to be a little high to live here for any extended period of time. It's the thin air, the dry climate, the feeling of being in a massive, alien environment - either funneled into valleys or exposed on mountainsides. I feel isolated, but brave. Illinois is a comparative swamp, humid and teeming with every imaginable creature. Here, life has to be big to subsist. I have tried to find little things of little account, such that I was able to find so easily back in the midwest and have really found only big. Lots of big. Which makes it difficult to write poems. I realize, I need to start small with my literary endeavors and having the small quashed in my environment has stymied my ability to write much of anything.
I have learned to ski, have hiked 14ers, bike 14 miles to work (on days without snow), play music. But I often fear that I have turned my back on writing and that those friends who write have moved on and forgotten about me, if I was ever really there in the first place (debatable.) Still, changes are afoot. Good ones that will bring me to a different place (down the hill towards Denver come August) and hopefully a different mindset. I cannot wait until I can hold my little chapbook in my hands and have a tangible reminder that, yes, I am poet. I am poet and, yes, socially awkward is its own adjacent milieu.
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As a stranger who chanced onto your blog, I say hello. If I was on a bus sitting next to you, I hope we would have a conversation. It helps pass the time.
I find the opposite to be true. I live in the midwest now, Iowa, but I grew up in the mountains of Idaho near Yellowstone. I found that the dry, thin air made me want to write. I can remember standing in a corn field in Iowa and realizing how much further away the sky seems in the midwest. The clouds always seemed to hug the mountains. The other thing I notice is that I find myself looking around for the mountains to orient myself. I dream of mountains still.
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