Also seen on Facebook!! Something I wrote this morning at the Ohio River
As recorded in falling apart notebook (punctuation and grammar added as absolutely needed aka whenever I felt OCD):
Nearly 20 minutes later the same jogger with a crazy neon organ hat pass by. The sun officially came up 9 minutes ago and I ran back to my car with a frozen bagel and tears from the windy cold blasting my face at about the same time.
So I had this brilliant idea to wake up early, grab coffee, and write/read/something down on the river. That was, of course, if it wasn't raining, which luckily it wasn't. And I grabbed a bagel and coffee and was on my way around 6:35 - too much earlier and I risked sitting in the dark alone along the river - yipes.
But the blinding wing drove me back in. Still sitting here, now in my car, listening to Hinder's CD and drinking significantly cooled off coffee. Still makes a good morning. Though sunrises aren't nearly as impressive in a cloud cover. I think I may try to do this once a week or so until Spring, in hopes that it will improve and watch it do so.
Not sure where the spirit to do this came from. Maybe Matt or maybe the fact that I'm spoiled at home with sunrises everyday. Or maybe some desperate attempt to reclaim a home in Evansville. Or claim some kind of beauty. Been thinking a lot about the mountains. I miss it sooo much and despite whatever (Sidenote, literally: I cannot drive in the snow!! or along scary mountainsides), I cannot wait to go back. I miss the water too.
I think there is something humbling about waking up on the edge of the world, whether it be at the water's break or along a mountain ridge. It makes you realize how small you are and puts you in your place. It also drives you to go further; cross oceans, climb mountains. In the Midwest, that doesn't exist. You wake up in the heartland. But I suppose you find the drive that come with being connected to everyone else (such as along the Ohio River) and perhaps that's why people are friendlier (supposedly) and less individually driven. Honestly, I don't know which one is more appropriate.
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Subnote that all ramblings were recorded in a post-sleep, pre-actually-being-awake state. Hence, ramblings.
Nearly 20 minutes later the same jogger with a crazy neon organ hat pass by. The sun officially came up 9 minutes ago and I ran back to my car with a frozen bagel and tears from the windy cold blasting my face at about the same time.
So I had this brilliant idea to wake up early, grab coffee, and write/read/something down on the river. That was, of course, if it wasn't raining, which luckily it wasn't. And I grabbed a bagel and coffee and was on my way around 6:35 - too much earlier and I risked sitting in the dark alone along the river - yipes.
But the blinding wing drove me back in. Still sitting here, now in my car, listening to Hinder's CD and drinking significantly cooled off coffee. Still makes a good morning. Though sunrises aren't nearly as impressive in a cloud cover. I think I may try to do this once a week or so until Spring, in hopes that it will improve and watch it do so.
Not sure where the spirit to do this came from. Maybe Matt or maybe the fact that I'm spoiled at home with sunrises everyday. Or maybe some desperate attempt to reclaim a home in Evansville. Or claim some kind of beauty. Been thinking a lot about the mountains. I miss it sooo much and despite whatever (Sidenote, literally: I cannot drive in the snow!! or along scary mountainsides), I cannot wait to go back. I miss the water too.
I think there is something humbling about waking up on the edge of the world, whether it be at the water's break or along a mountain ridge. It makes you realize how small you are and puts you in your place. It also drives you to go further; cross oceans, climb mountains. In the Midwest, that doesn't exist. You wake up in the heartland. But I suppose you find the drive that come with being connected to everyone else (such as along the Ohio River) and perhaps that's why people are friendlier (supposedly) and less individually driven. Honestly, I don't know which one is more appropriate.
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Subnote that all ramblings were recorded in a post-sleep, pre-actually-being-awake state. Hence, ramblings.