High Flight

High Flight
Originally uploaded by Alan Norsworthy

I met someone new today, a kindred spirit.
Although he died many years ago his spirit lives on in his writings.

It is in his writings that I saw myself.

“In some men, the need of unbroken country, primitive conditions and intimate contact with the earth is a deeply rooted cancer gnawing forever at the illusion of contentment with things as they are. For months or years this hidden longing may go unnoticed and then, without warning, flare forth in an all consuming passion that will not bear denial. Perhaps it is the passing of a flock of wild geese in the spring, perhaps the sound of running water, or the smell of thawing earth that brings the transformation. Whatever it is, the need is more than can be borne with fortitude, and for the good of their families and friends, and their own particular restless souls, they head toward the last frontiers and escape”.

~Sigurd Olson~
http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/research/sigurd_olson/theology.htm#In

My thanks to Patrick for pointing the way