That place I go to when life throws a curve ball that I don’t catch. Sometimes it just smacks. That place is a song I play on the guitar, strumming "Jamaica Farewell". It’s a cold mountain morning, it’s the summer sun on an island beach. That place is a shade covered road in the hills beyond cities reach. It’s a stroll through the streets of old Istanbul. That place is the memories of dusty Managua streets, it’s dining on a Greek island, it’s wine tasting in Monterrey, it’s a lightening storm in the Black Hills, it’s beer in a pub in Portland, it’s a Chicago pizza. That place is locations yet visited, friends yet made and adventures yet lived. That place is larger than life and greater than pain, toil or disappointment. That place is the heart and soul of lovers and romantics that know myth and legend is more real than the front page news. Come and go with me friends to that place. Your place will be different, known by some, understood by few. Go there anyway, you’ll be glad you did. Let’s go.
Note: Photo by my dear friend Billy Ray from www.sxc.hu. Thanks Billy!
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Hey, Phil, looking for my place… one day we’ll find it… as the Unicorn said in “The Last Battle” at the end of the C.S. Lewis Narnia series, “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia [earth] is that it sometimes looked a little like this…” Heaven, the model for the original earth. I can’t wait to experience it with you and explore it’s ‘places’ innumerable… a feast for the soul is awaiting each one of us who are “longing for a better country — a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.” (Hebrews 11:16)
Billy as always, I love your perspective. Yeah, you know after I wrote this, I thought about the summation of it at best is really glimpses, fragments of heaven, but not as vibrant. Just yesterday in church our Pastor gave an amazing message on what heaven will be like. Now that will be a place that many will know and understand together. How wonderful that will be.
We have all so been there — needing a place to find serenity and attachment to life. You write eloquently of the same things I try to do with photos …. love your site and I will be back often to visit “That Place”.
DiamondVVV1, thanks for visiting and please do return. Thanks for your great comments. You have a beautiful site with some nice images. Very pleasing to the eye. Finding a voice both in word and image is so very valuable. I enjoy seeing folks who generate new original content whether in word or images. You are doing that well.
Good blog, friend. I just saw you on Blog Catalog and I liked your name. I shall return. Keep up the thinking and those sparks!
Thanks for making contact Enemy of the Republic. I’m glad you stopped in. Blogging is really an enjoyable venture. Please do visit again.
Returning to the source and regaining focus, recharging one’s center, so important. Thanks for this post, I hope those who read it take it to heart.
Vacation as a lifestyle is something I want to do more. It’s as much a mindset as it is geography I think.
“That place I go to when life throws a curve ball that I don’t catch.”
I love this post. You write beautifully.
Adria, thanks for your comment. It encourages me to keep writing.