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| mountainheart |
Posted - February 23 2005 : 4:25:08 PM
I haven't read all the posts yet, but I always find so much meaning and insights when I come to the mountains. One thing is how so many look at the mountains the same way they look at life - they don't REALLY see them and especially don't take time to hear their lessons. Does anyone else feel this way? |
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| Emily |
Posted - February 25 2005 : 4:38:39 PM
Wow. That's deep. I've never had the pleasure of actually going and seeing these places but I guess Mountainheart really summed it up when she said that everyone has this innate hunger for natural scenes and even though I've never really considered it, I do believe it is something God has put in us to fufil our purpose. It makes sense to me anyway. |
| Redbird |
Posted - February 25 2005 : 12:13:55 PM
Mountainheart;
I have to tell you; when I first read your screenname, it made me think of myself! BTW, you were a lot braver than I am. I've lurked a lot on the site, before I got "brave" enough to try and post anything. It also doesn't help that I'm somewhat "cyber-challenged" and not a very fast typist. Anyway, the mountians are my *very favorite* place to be! I was lucky enough to live in Montana for a short time (with lots of trips to Wyoming): and I got hooked on them out there. The Tetons are probably my favorite so far. The Alps were also really cool: but I prefer the feel of my American homeland's Rockies. It seems like spirituality is something so tangible when you're in the mountains. I've had some honest-to-gosh religious experiences there.
When I was visiting around Flagstaff, AZ and in Grand Canyon Natl. Park - I had the same weird experience you did. I couldn't beleive all the cars that were just speeding through the park, trying to do way over the speed limit set for those roads! And these were cars with out of state plates, so they had to be tourists!? I couldn't understand why anybody would take the trouble to come to a place of such staggering beauty, just to motor through it without stopping to try to absorb some of it. I guess this sort of thing just either strikes a chord with you, or it doesn't. I can olny hope those kinds of folks will someday "see the light".
I think LOTM has one of the most powerful opening sequences of any film I can think of: and that shot of those misty blue mountains, as the music comes up, still gives me goosebumps! Oddly enough, my "mountain heart" is stuck here in the comparative flatlands of Indiana - about 20 minutes from you, I think! It can be a very small world after all... I hope that if we don't eventually end up living in the mountains, we can at least be able to spend more time there. Your post/question brought back a lot of good memories. Thanks! |
| Gadget Girl |
Posted - February 25 2005 : 10:29:59 AM
Hi Marcy - Welcome to board by the way!!!
I too feel a real sense of renewal when I visit the mountains, and there are certain places where I feel it more than others. Mt Pisgah, Ceasar's Head (SC - which looks down on Table Rock, SC)) and Table Rock ,NC. I plan to retire somewhere near Asheville, but ALL my girlfriends want to move to the beach and be Golden Girls! I've told them I'll come visit often if they will! I feel very relaxed at the ocean, but don't feel renewed like I do in the mountains.
I will have to "listen" better the next time I am at these places, but I certainly "FEEL" them!
GG |
| mountainheart |
Posted - February 25 2005 : 09:55:11 AM
I've always had a call from the mountains. At first I thought it's because I was born in Jelico TN and raised in the foothills of Southern KY but after talking with others, there seems to be an innate hunger placed within us for certain natural scenes. Maybe placed by God to help us fulfill our purpose? Anyway, the LOTM aroused this desire even more. I came to the revelation that many simply don't get it when I was in the Smokies last spring. I am a writer so take my journal with me everywhere. I was sitting in one of my favorite thinking spots on the Roark Motor Trail and as I sat I noticed several would drive by without even looking out, some would slow down, some would pull in but not all the way, etc. Only a few bother to get out and take it in. I was the only one who took the time to listen. Oh what they miss!!!!! |
| Dances with Beagles |
Posted - February 24 2005 : 10:20:10 PM
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Originally posted by mountainheart
I haven't read all the posts yet, but I always find so much meaning and insights when I come to the mountains. One thing is how so many look at the mountains the same way they look at life - they don't REALLY see them and especially don't take time to hear their lessons. Does anyone else feel this way?
Definitely. I remember, even as a child, being in awe of mountains. I grew up up in Delaware, which is flat coastal plain, highest elevation 300 ft. above sea level. Anytime I've been in the mountains has been special...very humbling, very beautiful.
I'm sure that the desert or the sea makes other people feel that way, but for me, it's always been mountains. |
| Christina |
Posted - February 24 2005 : 12:08:31 PM
I discovered it wasn't until after my mother passed away in 2000 and I discovered this board and started doing some travelling, and etc., it wasn't until then that I really started to APPRECIATE mountains and realize their sacredness and their beauty. I spent most of my childhood driving with my folks up and down the Blue Ridge Parkway and through the West Va. and Pennsylvania mountains to visit relatives, but it wasn't until about five years ago that I came to be thankful for and reverent to their ancient beauty. Same with the ocean, and rivers.
Christina |
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