Where to begin?…..

I am currently at Rivendell Writer’s Colony.  It is a beautiful isolated place tucked in the mountains and backwoods of Tennessee near Sewanee.  It is designed for writers to find the space around and within to allow the depths of creativity.  I feel like I have been captured and carried deep into Mystery.  I feel like Alice in Wonderland where the magnitude of God’s immense creation and the wonder of every tiny creature come to life in new and nourishing ways.  Sounds of nature make music through the intense silence.  Leaves of the forest begin to burst forth colors of Fall, before they fall.

The land sits on the precipice of a deep ravine.  The clouds hang low across the ravine encircling the mountains like puffs of smoke, signaling that essence of Mystery that invites the imagination into the yet unknown.  (Thus, the name “Smokey Mountains”).  A hammock hangs between two towering trees with a view across the ravine, inviting one who is willing, to surrender to the call of nature and listen to the whispering message of the smoke signals, the winds of the Spirit moving.

I have to say that I have never been in a place quite like this!  It seems there is so much to write about that I am filled up, and it wants to burst forth.  It’s more than I can possibly put into words.  But something inside me says I have to try!

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