My favorite place on earth..

The kids and I did an adventure day yesterday. It seems the “must rain every day” thing has passed. That’s Ok as it was like 7 weeks of it. And I am trying to find fun, but cheap things to do with them as it is summer and I must get out of the house sometimes..

So we went to Awosting Falls yesterday…

I find this place so magical. It is a great quick hike with the kids..like a nothing walk really. First you have to drive up the mountain which is way cool.
“See those big mountains over there..that’s where we are going”
“Really, Mommy? Wow”
and drive along the cliffs with tons of rock climbers, and the hair pin turn that Dylan took with his motorcycle and almost died..history!! Oh and the vies of the valley below…breathtaking.

And you walk along a path, by a stream..and get to the TOP of the waterfall. You can hang out up there..their are great flat rocks, and then littel pre falls. I am NOT a fan of going to the edge..and certainly NOT with kids, but it is cool.

Then you walk down the path to the base..along that way there are the most amazing rocks with trees growing out of them and so much moss. God I love moss. There are also millions of bugs which decided to eat me up. I had forgotten the spray so I DO have about 40 bites at me.

Anyhoo..bugs aside, at the base of the falls is a lovely pond, and then the creek flows away.It is small enough to wade though and cross to the other side. You can actually climb up behind the falls, and just rock scramble, find driftwood, cool rocks, etc.
Oh, my kids were in heaven. I let them wade in with their sandles on. They were all over the place. Give them a creek and they are happy for hours.

Now I have been coming to this place for like 20 years. I feel in love with it on the fated last camping trip I made with friends right before I came out publicly with my pregnancy with Max. Like I knew, and I had to deal, but this was my last moment of quiet..I went home and told my mom.

I remember being there with him and thinking about how this place was sooo old. And amazed to think that probably native Americans also stood in the same spot and marveled at the beauty and felt the magic. It is God at it’s finest. My Cathedral of life. It is my connection to the earth.

I have been to the mountains with all of my pregnancies. There is an old Native saying that once one comes to this area..or maybe it is drinks form the river..then we alsways come back. Yes, it is because the river runs north? It’s a funny thing, because it seems so true. People come here for different reasons…and they never leave. Or if they leave, they do come back. There is magic in these hills.

I shared the magic with my babies yesterday. Thrilled me to no end to see their delight.

Someday…I dream..I will have all four of my children there together..and my connection to the earth will be whole..the circuit complete.

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Musings of the Lame was started in 2005 primarily as a simple blog recording the feelings of a birthmother as she struggled to understand how the act of relinquishing her first newborn so to adoption in 1987 continued to be a major force in her life. Built from the knowledge gained in the adoption community, it records the search for her son and the adoption reunion as it happened. Since then, it has grown as an adoption forum encompassing the complexity of the adoption industry, the fight to free her sons adoption records and the need for Adoptee Rights, and a growing community of other birthmothers, adoptive parents and adopted persons who are able to see that so much what we want to believe about adoption is wrong.

7 Comments on "My favorite place on earth.."

  1. I do very much hope for your dream to pass that you get to the mountains and Awosting Falls with all of your children.

    My son has been to the city I live and where he was born a couple of times.

    During one of those times, we went to a place called Minnehaha Falls with all but one of my other boys. To have had all of them together would have been wonderous; but it didn’t happen. Though there are no mountains around my area, this waterfall is in a beautiful, hidden spot saturated with, I think, that sacred feeling of which you speak.

    After we ate ice cream and walked around the falls and followed the creek down to a still pool of water off to the side of the rushing waterflow, we played and waded in the still water under the steaming sun.

    There were lots of other families staying cool and playing in that little side pond of creek water.

    Suddenly, my oldest son shot off down stream. He had seen a little girl of about 7 being carried away by the water. I hadn’t seen her silently slip away, but I quickly figured out what had happened by a concerned looking man and 2 or 3 children focusing toward my son downstream.

    He caught up to the girl and carried her back upstream. If he hadn’t been so quick, she would have carried out into to the Mississippi River.

    It was a happy ending. The girl was returned safely to her family. My son was exhausted from it all.
    As he rested by the creek, my feelings were overwhelming. I just can’t help but love that boy!

  2. That is a beautiful place and a beautiful dream. Here’s hoping it becomes reality soon.

  3. I’m willing it for you too.

  4. Beautiful! Here’s to a dream come true.

  5. What a lovely image. Hold on to it and don’t let go. It will happen!!!

  6. ((Claud)) That is so beautiful. It makes me miss my gorge of youth. Feel stuck in a city.

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