06/30/2023: Getaway Day 1 (Marie)
We finally made it out here again. I don’t know why, but every time I have something to look forward to in my life, I always have an irrational fear that I won’t get to have it. That some event or happening will make it to where I don’t get to go and enjoy it. But I’m here now, and I’m so grateful.
It felt like it was time for another escape from life. It feels like it’s about to all ramp up again and I know that neither one of us would be ready for it if we didn’t take this chance to recharge first. Leaving the city behind is always a good feeling when I know we’re on our way here, to nature. The traffic and the hustle and bustle slowly start to fade away, and skyscrapers and billboards are replaced with blue skies, trees and tranquility.
I feel like I’m going through another period of growth in my newfound identity, and when I found out our cabin name was Marie, I felt as if this could be the place that I rest and push the bounds of where I am in life once again. It feels metaphorical somehow, to imagine escaping within myself for days in the woods. To assess the things running through my mind, and to find even more peace and understanding.
We have only been here a few hours, but we have already settled back into the beautiful rhythm that we always do when we’re here. Time ceases to matter, and the only things that do matter are each other and all the things we can’t wait to do. We took a moment to reconnect with each other when we arrived, and it was just what I needed to settle in for a cozy weekend full of rest and laughs and new memories that I know we’ll make.
I’m so happy and proud to see him in his element, in a place that nurtures this side of him. And I love the freedom this place always gives me, to explore my deepest thoughts and to do the things I want to do, uninterrupted from the routines and obligations of daily life. It’s a wonderful sound once you’ve grown accustomed to it: complete and blissful silence.
It’s an amazing feeling to look outside my window and see nature in its beauty, nothing man made as far as the eye can see. If you allow yourself to imagine it, you can pretend that it’s only you out here alongside Mother Nature. I’ve missed her. This was how she always intended human nature to feel, how she always intended it to be.
People don’t go back to their roots enough, back to the basics that rejuvenate them. I hope that people can find the thing that inspires them, and that it promotes rest and contemplation about their place in this vast universe. It’s a feeling like no other to feel a connection to this beautiful natural world, to have it speak to you in ways the mundane world, and other people, cannot. I look forward to a wonderful time here.