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Jumping Off The Cliff & Building Your Wings On The Way Down

Since I was very young, I have always had a passion for railroad cars and traveling across open country and through small towns of rural Americana, gazing out through curtained windows and being held spellbound when viewing the majesty of snow capped mountains and wooded hillsides with winding rivers shimmering in the early morning sunlight snaking their way through the land as if they were in their own essence a living creature traveling on an endless journey. I have found that when one travels by rail from coast to coast that it is quite possibly the most exhilarating experience that one could ever partake of. It is also, if one can luck up and acquire a room, a rather challenging experience if you're engaged in writing either a selection of short stories or continuing with that novel that never seems to have an ending.

In my youth, my travels took me across the expanse of Long Island, from the now defunct Bellaire train station to Montauk and back again. There were particular stations along the way that would spark my interest, and when the train would stop at one of these stations I would get off and experience the atmosphere of a different point in the world, regardless that it may have only been 10 or so stops from where I had boarded the train originally, it was still a point on the map that I was unfamiliar with but needing to explore and visualize the differences in people as well as the similarities and also, finding that exploring old Long Island (1960's) was going to be not only a challenge but a huge building block to be placed at the base of the temple of the knowledge of both good and evil, although good and evil may be too strong of meanings. Better yet the temple of the knowledge of positives and negatives. You see it is in this temple where we come upon the differences of a world staring us in the face on a daily basis. A world that dares us to explain it, to dramatize it's oddities and its evens, it's hidden and well kept secrets and those open and apparent blatant wonders that are spread out before us that many seem to pass by without notice, these are the most grand of presentations of the world that go relatively unseen because man, somehow, only harbors upon those things that are negative and overlooks without thought those things that are positively charged and generating the most creative energies. In other words, the world around us challenges us, challenges our intuition our intellect our very nature and it inspires those who can see beyond the veil that conceals to most, the simple qualities of humanity that often fade into the past without even so much as a nod of recognition to their existence. But these hidden things of beauty, glorified within the secretive nature of nature itself can be found not only when one travels 10 stations from ones home, but can be found just outside your front door. At the foot of the curb are worlds yet waiting to be explored by those who want to raise that veil which conceals their very existence. That rock there...that discarded plastic bottle of soda, that newspaper being tossed to and fro by the wind...each one holds a story, each one had a beginning but yet their end has not yet been written if you can acknowledge their place in the world. The seasons come and go, and with each passing second, with each hour that grows shorter than the other, time is challenging you to jump off that cliff and build you wings on the way down.

To all those who have been on that train and at the edge of that cliff...WRITE ON!!!!

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