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Have You Lost Your Awe?

By Marie Pinschmidt of Maine, the Alamo, San Antonio, and the hill country of “Things” only bring pleasure or joy for a moment. It’s the
Last month, I wrote about Texas. The amber waves of grain through Kansas presented simple things, the often mundane but beautiful encounters all
stress. This month the subject an awesome view of the Colorado mountains. Eating a around us that bring lasting memories. Material life will let
is more upbeat. You may have chuckwagon dinner at the foot of the mountains, the Garden you down. Friends and governments often disappoint, and
noticed a shortage of smiling of the Gods, and riding a ski lift in Vale – all memorable. so can children and loved ones. We need to love ourselves
faces in recent months and Catching a trophy Northern pike in Canada was fun enough to search until we find that certain something, that
for good reason. Maybe we even though our Indian guide had to be sobered up before new experience that can change lives, health, and happiness.
are looking for awe in all the the fishing trip. What’s more fun than Canadian sunsets and We should not envy others their experiences or allow others
wrong places. Most of us find inebriated Indians? to diminish us. Express your uniqueness. Reach out to
awe in sunrises and sunsets, Travels to Guatemala, Mexico City, the Mayan ruins of others that you find interesting; they may need you more
a magnificent sky, in books Tikal and Capon were awesome as was being unable to find than you need them. When we were children, everything
or music. When a cloud of the landing strip at Capon. Flying in a five-passenger plane was new and interesting. I now wish I had lived some of my
uninvited memories, or current events threatens to darken my from Guatemala City to Belice and landing in the middle of past experiences more fully. The term “second childhood”
day, I try to think of happy times, until the past gets in my way. a huge pineapple field for a customs check at a one-room is not such a bad thing. I choose to think of myself as
I grew up in a small town where I watched river barges building surrounded by men with guns was awe-inspiring. chronologically challenged rather than old. Allow yourself
gliding up and down the Ohio River, traveled the majestic Many of us go through life with our eyes closed or to be a kid again.
mountainous landscapes of West Virginia and Virginia we are oblivious to the awesome wonders of nature in The above being said, we should also allow ourselves to
alongside babbling roadside streams and parks. I’ve explored our own country. Ernie Pyle, a news correspondent from be angry occasionally, especially when the world presents
the low country of Georgia and South Carolina, partook of long ago once spoke of “that long, sad wind that blows us with food and drugs that destroy our health and fill our
amazing seafood cuisine, and painted the tobacco barns in so steadily across the hundreds of Midwest flat lands in mind with mistrust and fear. We must fight back by refusing
North Carolina. I cruised beautiful Lake Placid in New York the summertime. To me, it is one of the most melancholy to buy (literally) what the world offers. I have done this in
and waved at Kate Smith in her boat. For eleven years I lived things in life. It comes from so far, and it blows so recent months and benefitted by doing so in many ways.
in New Orleans, and they were awesome years in many ways. gently, and yet so relentlessly; it rustles the leaves and If you wish to know more about my adult life and its ups
I later lived in Savannah, Georgia, on the ocean in North the branches of the maple trees in a sort of symphony of and downs, read Life Interrupted A Memoir When the Doctor
Carolina and now Florida. sadness, and it doesn’t pass on and leave them still. It just Becomes the Patient, available on Amazon, etc.
I’ve also traveled to other exciting places that brought keeps coming.” As you can see, even the putting together Until next time,
awe to my life. To name a few: Twice to the Rocky Coast of words can be awesome. Marie

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