tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21736689.post7160332534992388722..comments2023-08-22T11:00:08.809-04:00Comments on Loose Ends: Solstice WalkPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10556860299477514075noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21736689.post-2136933162894761182009-07-24T11:41:46.710-04:002009-07-24T11:41:46.710-04:00It's good to know that others who have taken t...It's good to know that others who have taken this walk seem to find the same peace and serenity the campus has always offered. I always return there when I return home for visits and the creek and I reaquaint ourselves. Thanks Patrick for so eloquently remembering what is possibly a very touching part of quite a few lives.<br /><br />Michael Wright (we lived behind you all those years...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21736689.post-5240020442881299762008-01-05T12:46:00.000-05:002008-01-05T12:46:00.000-05:00B: I realized in writing this that I probably did...B: I realized in writing this that I probably didn't share any of the stories with you as we took the walk. I was seeing it with your eyes to some extent, and got rather shy about it all. Not only is Cape Breton spectacularly beautiful, you also shared your stories with me as we looked at places. I think that made a key difference. I didn't experience your childhood place either, but I think I had a better sense of it. And I fell in love with the place for my own reasons, as you know. I tend to do that. <BR/><BR/>Joe: I thought a fellow flat-lander (at least by birth) would be able to relate. I have to say I always found Michigan to be beautiful in a dramatic way too though, but that may have been because I spent most of my time there on Lake Michigan, an ocean and lake in one. I'll be glad to take this walk with you anytime you want, Handsome. I hadn't noticed the growing up journey I took in this entry as well. Sometimes we need a perceptive reader or two to show us what the story is about.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10556860299477514075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21736689.post-15224693140430243482008-01-05T09:03:00.000-05:002008-01-05T09:03:00.000-05:00Epic. I enjoyed every path, meadow, headstone, fir...Epic. I enjoyed every path, meadow, headstone, firefly, and sapling. Maybe because it resonated so tenderly with the woodsy wanderings through perhaps unremarkable but deeply claimed landscapes I was free to indulge in my own childhood neighborhood. And the deep longing they stirred for some arcadian, uncivilized, ideal that belonged to legend and frontier. Realscape met imagination halfway in our young souls. <BR/><BR/>I'm touched by by the evolution of sentiment you've traced here... your youthful resentment of the intrusion of traces of civilization, your subsequent wondering why and whether anyone bothered to go there any more, your eventual reconciliation, even welcome, of the changes that must reconfigure the landscape, still leaving something imperishable along that path to the past and the present, and evergreen. It's a story about growing up. <BR/><BR/>Home, then, with the holly, cousin. A little taken, a little left behind. I'll be back to take this walk with you again.Joe Jubinvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09489419756833657839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21736689.post-41612160179218285952008-01-05T00:20:00.000-05:002008-01-05T00:20:00.000-05:00I enjoyed the walk, and I appreciated the beauty, ...I enjoyed the walk, and I appreciated the beauty, but you're right, I didn't make any strong connections with it. I'm definitely more of an ocean kind of guy. This post was beautiful, though!Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11902036421029192480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21736689.post-26517772265126138722008-01-04T21:04:00.000-05:002008-01-04T21:04:00.000-05:00Looks wintery. Looks like it would smell wintery ...Looks wintery. Looks like it would smell wintery and earthy in a good way.Javahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17377033663576614925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21736689.post-70779128624250810032008-01-04T13:02:00.000-05:002008-01-04T13:02:00.000-05:00I love the purple glow of this brush walk.......I love the purple glow of this brush walk.......Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16537701870966871858noreply@blogger.com