Halfway Over the Hill #6 (Earth & Air)
( Reading time - 5 book pages of text ~ 2300 words ) 11th July - Morning has broken and you rise from your bed with a question. Indoors or outdoors? In the city it doesn't matter: the angry roar and choking stench of traffic or the dance of fury of hundreds of dissatisfied lives, pounding on the percussion walls of your appartment cell. Here in Abruzzo, the open air beckons. I step out at dawn and am immediately welcomed by the orchestral hum of teeming, unseen life and a caressing breeze of dew-drop freshness. I raise my head to drink in the view and every time, without fail, I am arrested by the silent call of the ageless hills. Their eternal youth enveloping me in their warm embrace. The still, inescapable hills are a reminder that Old Mother Earth is here beneath your feet and they put your half-century of worries into perspective. And although we live in a time of doom-laden horizons and it feels like the beginning of the end of the world; the hills uplift me w...