Did you get outside this weekend? I hadn't planned to because I needed to clean but my phone rang and it was my momma. .
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"What are you doing? Want to go hike?" The answer to that is always yes. 😊
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Hiking with my Mom has been such a wonderful thing over the last few years. My Mom has always been an outside person but just 4 years ago at this time she was going through treatment for lymphoma and I wondered if our time outside was over. Luckily, she was back on trail a little over a year later. .
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She's the best hiking buddy.
She even helps me look for trash! Though, she wouldn't allow me to pick up a pee bottle, even with gloves. 🤷♀️ (I'll go back for it this week. 🤣) Also, whhhyyyy is there a pee bottle in the woods. You can literally pee anywhere?!
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Did you get out this weekend? Did you leave it better? .
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This is the land of the Shawnee, Adena, and other Hopewell cultures.
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This is my sanctuary to worship,
A place hidden amongst the trees.
Sandstone cliffs and waterfalls,
My face cool from a breeze.
No need to search for answers
They know just where I'll be.
Worshipping the earth surrounding
My sanctuary amongst the trees.
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This is the land of the Shawnee, Osage, Miami, Wyandot and possibly other Hopewell cultures. .
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#britanysadventuresinwanderland
#seekthetrails #myhockinghills
Tears welled in my eyes unexpectedly as a scrolled through the gallery of images at my finger tips. I was caught off guard by the emotion. Was I sad? I sat for a moment to try to figure out the source of the tears.
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They were not pictures from a sad time but rather the opposite as the photo above can easily attest. I stared at my face in the photo and everything about that moment came rushing back to me like a movie. .
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I could remember every thought in my head. Every smell. I could see the pinks and blues of the sky dancing during my favorite time of day. The red rock around me covered in a veil of soft pink that slowly turned orange as the world was awakening. I could remember my breath. The happiness I was feeling.
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Then, the rest of the memory came back. Shortly after this photo, I had also found my eyes unexpectedly swelled with tears and the emotion I was feeling then, was similar to what had put those tears back in my eyes now.
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I had truly found people impacting my life in such a beautiful way and in a few short hours I had to leave them, not knowing when I would actually be blessed with their presence and light again. New friendships and old ones strengthened. The feelings coming over me were ones of overwhelming happiness mixed with a heartbreaking longing to maintain those human connections. .
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I have thought about that weekend often and I don't think I'll ever be able to express how it changed me or how it continues to stay with me but I truly am so privileged, blessed and grateful for all of the humans who touched my soul and continue to though it may only be through a phone right now. I kick myself a little for not taking photos with these friends, a conversation I've had with a few of them. We were just so happy, present.
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I cannot thank the @womenontheroad team and @howsheviewsit enough for affording me the opportunity to not only attend but be a part of something that was so very special. I am so grateful for all of you. .
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I will welcome these tears as I revisit that weekend and those moments. 💞💫
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Taken on Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute) land. .
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