Got a 'fuzzy' moon t'nite.....'bout 3/4 full, I'd guess....I b'leeve this is a 'blue moon' month 'n it'll be full by the end of the year... the decade is closing fast...prob'ly cuz I'm on a downhill slope 'n no brakes.....I remember when I was a boy running the ridgetops of Kentucky (my Dad use'ta say you could follow the ridgetops all the way to Virginia 'n I spect you still could as far as that goes)..
the ridges are steep 'n the hollows for the most part, narrow....you could stand on top of a ridge 'n talk to someone on the the neighboring ridge 'n never have to raise your voice....well, not very much anyways....'n standing on top of a ridge, you could see way off into the blue distance, ridge after ridge, as far as the eye could take you.....it was easy to imagine Dan'l Boone or any of those old long hunters standing in the same spot 200 years before....They have blacktop roads cutting through the hills today and the woods are full of deer 'n wild turkey....folks talk that there are panthers roaming the hills again but there ain't been a lot of proof of that....don't make any difference whether there's proof or not, it's a fact that the wildlife is coming back to the hills 'n if there aren't any panthers yet, there will be one day....'n wouldn't it be great if the great Chestnut tree could make a comeback..
all things cycle, y'know....that's what life is all about....in the great scheme of things, politics just ain't very important at all.....
I remember a book from long ago.....not a very good book, as I recall.....about a Kentucky family who had to leave the hills and go into the wilderness of civilization searching for salvation.....I don't remember much about the book....as I said, I don't think it was very good but the title stuck with me all these years anyway...."Those Enduring Hills"......ah well, with a waxing moon I tend to wax nostalgic 'n you just have to put up with me...g'nite
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