Out of Myself I Go: Beauty for Ashes Pt. 1

Beauty for Ashes* Pt. 1 On the way back from an early morning shower, Astrid had been lured down a trail leading to a lake by burning orange light filtering through the trees. The skies wanted to give her something.    She crouched at the edge of the lake, distracted by wispy little footprints running towardContinue reading “Out of Myself I Go: Beauty for Ashes Pt. 1”

Out of Myself I Go: Prologue

Theodore Roosevelt National Park  “ ‘Out of my country and myself I go*’. I wish to take a dive among new conditions for a while, as into another element. I have nothing to do with my friends or my affections for the time; when I came away, I left my heart at home in aContinue reading “Out of Myself I Go: Prologue”