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| Take Me Home, Country Roads |
Yesterday I headed out to a new walking trail/park near our house. Clint had been walking there a couple of times. We were on different schedules yesterday, I walked a little later and took my camera. These photos were made during my walk. John Denver's song, Take Me Home, Country Roads came to mind and how I always loved that song. I was thinking of the scenes before me, the walking trail stretching before me looking like country roads. The country roads I had missed so badly when I lived in Texas. So many scenes, scents, and sounds from yesterday had reminded me again how much I had missed Tennessee.
I continued to walk and snap pictures, all the while with John Denver's lyrics flowing through my head. William P. Young had written about how we all have a "Great Sadness". I could not help but think when I read this book my "great sadness" was being away from home ... Tennessee.
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| And driving down the road I get the feeling That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday. |
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| All my memories, gathered 'round her ... |
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| Miners' Lady, stranger to blue water ... |
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| Life is old there, older than the trees ... |
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| "East Tennessee", mountain mama ... |
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| Misty taste of moonshine, teardrops in my eyes. |
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| Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze ... |
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| I hear her voice in the morning how she calls me. |
Hot and tired after walking two miles, I got to the car and hurriedly turned on the air conditioning. The radio started with the first word not quite audible but the following words I could plainly hear ... "...Mountain mama, take me home, country roads". I could barely believe that "Country Roads, Take Me Home" was playing on the radio when I started the car. I could not help but get a little emotional at that time, I had to sit there for a few minutes. Author Squire D. Rushnell
writes of When God Winks. I felt this moment was definitely a God wink for me.
The radio reminds me of my home far away.
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