Life before 2008 08 Sep 2006 06:01 am
Perspective and Personality
On our drive to town we travel a winding country road with many little hills. And about three-quarters of the way down, over a hill and curve combined, one emerges around a tree to a truly spectacular view across the Cumberland Mountains. Layers of green and blue and mountain mist seem to go on forever and I drive by slowly to take it in.
I always get there and gasp, “Hello beautiful.”
Yesterday though was foggy. We could only see about 20 feet around the perimeter of our car. We came over the hill and around the trees and…
W, who’d been looking at a book in his lap up to this point, glanced up at the shrouded view and yelled, “Hey! What happened?!?! Where’s our mountains?!”
at the same time, his older brother, who’d also been looking down in his lap, missed the mountains entirely and yelled excitedly,
“Hey look! In that tree there! An OWL!”
Big picture or little detail. The trueness to their personality cracked me up 
It warmed up to be an almost achingly beautiful day. The throbbing pulse of the season change is beneath our feet, just a whisper right now but there all the same.
