Wilderness

Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people 

are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; 

that wilderness is a necessity...

-John Muir

When I was a child we would travel from Long Island

to the Adirondack mountains. I would tell my playmates

that I was going to the mountains.

Husband and I watched a documentary the other night

that opined that the Japanese travel hundreds of miles

to their mountains, build temples to honor them, and

worship there.

So, we are traveling to the high peaks in northern

New York only a short distance from Canada.

I am once again going home to the mountains.

I will worship there.