Showing posts with label woods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woods. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

That's it. I'm going to the woods.

You know that intense scene in Revolutionary Road where Kate Winslet's character just runs into the woods 'just to think' and to get away from the crazy fight she's having with her husband?

That's how I feel.

Like, I don't want Central Park woods. I don't want Stony Creek woods. I'm craving hard-core, the city of Empire, MI in the midst of Sleeping Bear Dunes woods. I don't want to hear cars or a stupid human being uttering one, single solitary word. I want to hear old birch tree branches snapping underneath my boots and feel warm sunlight rays streaming onto my face from in between overhead trees. And I want to smell tree bark. And dead leaves. I want to breathe in brisk air all around me, not a harsh wind whipping me in the face. I want to hear a normal bird and not any gurgling from a dirty pigeon. And I don't want anyone else with me. Not-a-one. The woods can be shared, but not now. I want me in those woods alone, smelling and listening and breathing.

Basically, I want inner peace.
Turns out it's really difficult to find inner peace at work.

I hate computers.
No, I don't.
damnit.
I hate computers today.
That's better.

Honesty is a virtue.
And regret ain't just a river in Egypt.
Or something.
UNT.