Crossing the praries
traveling with my daughter i have already learned that where i see the travelling as the journey and a goal unto itself... she like most kids is looking for a destination and so does not yet know how to enjoy the ever changing topography... well i think i will have to wait till we are out of the praries to start teaching her that..... as we joke about being able to see the cn tower from where we are in Alberta... ... although i have no real direct experience of the beauty of living in a flat land where i keep looking over my shoulder expecting to see something different... like something is missing....but nothing ever changes my dad talked about the rich beauty and spirit of the Praries from his childhood in Saskatchewa... a fondness for the land that he carried all his life even into the Yukon..... i hope i can sense it deeper but may be it will take standing on the rich earth instead of cruising at 11o kms across its surface... actually i just realized that it is not the land that is magical... it is the sky and the land.... the sky goes on and on like the land and they seem to become one.... yes i get it now.... my dad only talked of the land but it is also the sky....... the big feeling i get is that of being very very small.... a tiny speck ..... yes this land makes me feel insignificant.... little but in some way part of something very large.... nice...
Hopefully Aja learns quickly about the journey being the goal as opposed to the destination... a year's a long time to be anticipating a destination.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think you're right. A part of the beauty and spirit of the Prairies is in how the sky and land go together. I wouldn't write off the land altogether though; it's richness also comes from it's productivity... the Prairies is the land that brings us our food. A humble, vast land... laying down to the sky.
PS. I like the pictures of you guys with the various province welcome signs.
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