Natural Freedom

So much news has come into the ears this past week, along with information about my trip along the Washington Coast. Many of the small villages, along the way,never change. The one thing that does is the destruction of my 200 ft. high lungs, which are dug up by bulldozers, and left to rot along the hillsides, awaiting a developer to buy the land and build some new vacation homes for people who do not have to drive by the stripped land, every day. 

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There is a lot of that going on along the coast now. In spite of the attempts to colonize the wild Washington mountainsides, there does seem to be some progress, however, in many ways stagnation seems to follow now that the economy is still in a downward spiral.


 Many homes are empty, stores are closed and the same layouts along the coastal roads seem never to change. Some folks have purchased the salt encrusted homes, that stood empty for many years, and their efforts are good ones, in trying to take the old, the forgotten and brighten up the energy around them. 

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For a few weeks, the weather is ok, then, like this past week, it is brilliant and perfect. They forget, or maybe they do not know, what wicked weather is like when the North Pacific screams and bellows its crazy anger into the sands and ancient forests standing above the shoreline. Some will never see the ice storms raging against their newly painted beach cottages. 


The incredible energy from a Pacific winter storm is breathtaking and at the same time, so dangerous when swells cross into the fields and roads, and into the homes along the way. And a more magnificent display of nature cannot be imagined with 80 mph winds and angry ocean beating against the earth. I am glad Man has not learned how to control nature. I am even happier he will never be able to do so. 

Of course, the deployment of a nuclear bomb is always a possibility, which would change nature's way, however, that is about the only thing that is man-made, for now, which I would see change it all, in my lifetime.
It would be glaring and in my face, like nothing other during my time.


There are many places around the planet that are built upon ancient cities. Troy is built above 10, at last count. 10 ancient civilizations beneath present day foot falls. The earth has a way of cleansing itself of the past, with little sympathy for the efforts of humankind, across the centuries and millennium. It is always good to know that nature maintains it wild ways, uncontrollably so.

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