Heading back to Wisconsin

Aug 12

Went to Greenfield and visited my mother in the nursing home. Afterwards, I drove back to Cambridge City, put on my backpack after parking in the school parking lot. I walked up the country road to the cemetery and my dad's grave. His grave had a new plaque saying he was a WW II veteran. I looked at other headstones and recognized a number of them as adults I had known as a youngster. There were also some HS friend’s headstones. I hiked out into the countryside where I had jogged or ridden my bike at some time in the past. Then I went back to Ted and Wanda's home. I have this distinct inner sense of different time and geographical zones. There is the FLT hike zone. The CC past and present zone. And, shortly I will enter the Wis. present world zone. It feels like I am walking through 2 separate doorways. Am I different than when I started out ? Well, I am healthier. I feel like I have graduated onto the next era of my life. I have started that journey on to the Plain towards the Ocean of Origin. I have stepped into my next decade feeling renewed, no, that is not the right word; it is more like old but new. I will have to work on better articulating this feeling or sense of what has happened internally to me as a result of this hike/journey. So stay tuned folks, there is more to come.