About My Heaven On Earth Growing Up

 This is me remembering my favorite place to be alone as a kid and up until I was out of community college. I'm sure everyone has had a favorite spot to sit or wander around while growing up. It is a special place maybe to others it wouldn't seem like much but the memory of it is priceless. We treasure that place and no matter where life takes us we will always pause for a second and smile as we think back and fondly remember...

Mine was high up on a mountain in a small rural area where my grandparents lived for many years. I still see how it was when I close my eyes and think back. God that was a great time in my life. So many memories of being there and times with family and all the stories I was told by my elders. I love them very much and miss them like crazy sometimes. I am writing about that place though. It was "mine"..many times me my little brother and sometimes cousins would run through those woods playing Cowboys & Indians or hunt and lots of times just go exploring. It would amaze us the things we found and would talk about the history of that old mountain. It was really something Y'all.

But the times that I would wander through there alone to think or calm myself... to lay on a blanket of moss by the trickle of a tiny creek and close my eyes as I listened to the sounds of Nature...a squirrel chattering, a turkey calling, the chirping of birds or the cry of a hawk as it circled lazily above me. If I spent enough time there it seemed like everything would be right with the world. So peaceful and so pure so still yet busy with the sounds of some species of furry woodland creature..I fell asleep so many times in that spot and felt so safe and secure..so at peace feeling like those people way back in a time where everything was simpler.

I felt like the most fortunate and privileged boy in all the world. I didn't have all that much in the way of material possessions or tons of money I admit, but I didn't need or want anything more than I had. To me? I had something that most of the world was searching for..a little piece of Heaven on Earth...

Hang on to your memories Y'all and that place that made you so happy growing up. I will never forget mine.
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