The Mountain
The mountain has always been there.
Towering above the valley, it stands watch over meadows, lakes, roads, and the hotel I am staying in. Elk graze peacefully on the lawn below...how many herds have come and gone under
its watchful gaze? How many dramas have unfolded in it's shadow? Mountain lions making a kill, blizzards covering everything in white, thunder crashing as lightning blasts its rocky crags....
How many have climbed it? How many have died trying?
(several, that I know of)
It's done nothing to invite being climbed, conquered. It's just there. It, and other peaks in the Rockies had to be conquered, to go west. For those who did, it wasn't just mere adventure, but rather a necessity. Which leads me to look at the mountains in my own life.
They are not invited, not deserved, just there: my parent's death, old age, kids growing up...they have to be climbed, conquered. There is no choice. I need the right equipment, the right advice.
Or I too will be a casualty, another death on the mountain.
And the mountain will still be there...
Towering above the valley, it stands watch over meadows, lakes, roads, and the hotel I am staying in. Elk graze peacefully on the lawn below...how many herds have come and gone under
its watchful gaze? How many dramas have unfolded in it's shadow? Mountain lions making a kill, blizzards covering everything in white, thunder crashing as lightning blasts its rocky crags....How many have climbed it? How many have died trying?
(several, that I know of)
It's done nothing to invite being climbed, conquered. It's just there. It, and other peaks in the Rockies had to be conquered, to go west. For those who did, it wasn't just mere adventure, but rather a necessity. Which leads me to look at the mountains in my own life.
They are not invited, not deserved, just there: my parent's death, old age, kids growing up...they have to be climbed, conquered. There is no choice. I need the right equipment, the right advice.
Or I too will be a casualty, another death on the mountain.
And the mountain will still be there...
posted by Rob | 12:55 PM
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