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November 2009 
Where would you choose to spend your life?
Posted on Oct 10th, 2009
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Laura
Laura
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 10, 2009:
I don't think I've been there yet. It's not utterly remote but has a sort of collective sense of the importance of living consciously and kindly and so it isn't a city. It's not too cold nor too humid. It doesn't have any sort of tourist industry turning it cynical and kitschy around the edges. There are eccentric folks there who don't have televisions, who (like me) let scared little snakes that wander into their houses hang out in the walls. I don't know what the landscape might be like. Sometimes I think of Flagstaff, Arizona. It seems closest to my sense of where I'd like to be (if I had to pick one place) but then there are greener places that appeal to me too. I miss Athens, Georgia, where I lived for many years, but I don't want to live there particularly. Sometimes too I think of moving overseas, perhaps to Australia or New Zealand. I'm glad, though, that this is a mystery. It will be fun to see how things go, and where.
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Hi, Laura, for right now, where you are perched, is a pretty good resting point.
It's a good place to make up your mind as it is the least hustling little town I know of. Beautiful location too.
It is the least hustling, isn't it? I mean, it never ever really hustels. even a parade is kind of laid back. It's a nice place to be and to return to. and yeah, I love that Burnt Mountain Overlook. I know it quite well and have posted photos of that view in autumn. : )
Laura, If it were a sunnier day, I'd be tempted to take the drive just to stand and look a while. Duty to Home and Family take precedence today. Do you hike at all? The road I used to live on, Rock Creek Trail, is fabulous when the leaves begin to turn and the snakes seek warmer quarters. May be we can get up there one day and poke around. It is the Old Lansdown Place, Gold mines, highwaymen, robbers, moonshine runners, the whole Enchilada.
No, I don't know that trail! But I would love to. you know, my grandaddy was a revenuer and I have a bunch of old tapes with him telling stories about those days and experiences. I keep meaning to have them restored but haven't done it.
Another good place to hike is the Burnt Mountain Preserve, off of that same Burnt Mountain road you mentioned.
It's up off off Price Creek Rd. And it runs along Talking Rock Creek, people used to come pan and sluice for gold when I lived up there. The house has burned down, (now I can see the moon!) but I'll bet my peach trees are still there. Ans the stone garden wall I built. Do you want to go one weekend when the yellow jackets and snakes have gone?
Sure! I just came from Talking Rock Creek, actually. I would love to see this trail.
No joke! Well, we'll do it then. It's a good little hike but not too awful, about a couple miles in, there used to be a lot of laurel hells back in there but I know a trail that'll take us to the top of the mountain. Okay, let the “wild things” have their day and your on! Really, I'm more afraid of yellow jackets than I am snakes, and poison oak scares me worse than either of them.