Comments on: Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park – part two

By: bev

bev — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:08:53 +0000

robin – I’m not sure where I will end up living — perhaps I’ll divide my time between many places. The west is now very much a part of my past and present. As you’ve mentioned, there’s so much time to think of all of this…
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am – Very glad you liked the rock art. I’ll look up “The Courage to Create”. Interesting, but I think we often limit ourselves for odd reasons and, if we can just free our thinking, we could be doing more. That’s sort of what I’m working at these days. And, yes, you’re right – I’m drawn in all four directions. I don’t quite know what that means and why I don’t feel much inclination to choose one. Perhaps I’ve been in one place for far too long and it’s just my time to wander.
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Wayne – I’ve been watching for fellow wanderers, but don’t really seem to see too many. Even in the west, the license plates are usually from the same state, or perhaps the next over. Perhaps that’s due to the economy and fuel costs, but it might have something to do with journeying into unfamiliar territory. Based on my own wanderings, there’s a certain barrier that you have to get past – one that seems to arise as you get to what I always think of as “the point of no return” — that time when you’re suddenly a couple or more days from home and feeling like you’re really out there on your own. That feeling used to bother me a bit, but now I just feel a slight twinge.
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John – Sooner or later, I have a feeling that I’ll venture into New Mexico and Texas. Last week, I bought a New Mexico atlas to muse over.

By: John

John — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:31:38 +0000

I share Robin’s thoughts…but I think you’d enjoy the vast stretches of wonderful isolation in the southwest, particularly in New Mexico and west Texas. If you could just ignore the political landscape in west Texas, you could enjoy the stunningly beautiful desolation.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:58:13 +0000

The rock drawings are wonderful – how frustrating it must be to have to decipher which are a coupla hundred years old, and which are ten thousand years old. Good to hear that the drawings are being protected from nancy hearts bob now.

I also find the traveling phenomenon interesting. I don’t have it myself, and wonder why. The west certainly has a fabulous diversity of landscapes, while we in the east also have a diversity but it is more subtle, and perhaps more commingled with higher populations and development.

There are certainly people around here who crave to sample eastern landscapes – lots of them, and do a lot of traveling to see them. So maybe it’s also a matter of stay at homes, more predominant here, vs wanderers, to be found more frequently in the west.

Whatever it is, it’s great to have your reports of what you’re seeing, Bev.

By: am

am — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:32:18 +0000

Thanks so much for posting the close-ups of the rock drawings and the little Mule Deer buck whose ancestors were certainly featured in some of the rock drawings. Just bought a copy of The Courage to Create, by Rollo May. All of my creativity has gone into my blog and my book and photography in the time since Richard died. I’m half afraid to draw or paint or weave or write poetry again, but seeing those rock drawings reminds me of where I came from and where I might go again with my creativity.

Interesting how you appear to be drawn in four directions. North vs south and east vs west. With me, it’s only Pacific Northwest vs Northern and Central California. One thing for sure, that tension of opposites makes for good traveling. From one beloved place to another beloved place.

By: robin andrea

robin andrea — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:27:49 +0000

I always secretly wish that you will move west. I know that you have Nova Scotia in your heart, but there is so much out west that would appeal to your senses. Ah, but there is so much time to think about all of this, especially while you are traveling and seeing all these beautiful things. A whole winter lies ahead.