Ten acres and a bushel of appples

[farm gurl]

LOL!   Anywhere rural, where the grass is dewy in the morning and the night is dark and still is my idea of good living.  Of course having a family to share it with is essential.

[dougf4]

This really isn't about a place as much as a state of "being."  I saw this letter to the editor in our local paper today and it really hit home.  This man is stating why so many yearn for a life of rural independence.

FOURTH: Oh, to be clueless again

I took my daughter to the fireworks show on the lake and I observed many young couples out enjoying the evening. I watched some as they held each other tight, laughing, not a worry in the world.

Other couples I noticed weren't so young; from the looks of it they had been together for years. They looked tired. Mortgage, kids, job, life and the relationship itself was wearing them down.

But I ask, weren't we all that young couple once? In love, invulnerable, had it all figured out... maybe we did. Or are we just now figuring it out?

To be young is to have limited life experience and it confines us to our immature, fantastic ideals of who we think we are at a time when we really don't have a clue. But didn't we feel more free and alive when we were clueless?

Today, it seems decisions are made for us, no, forced upon us. Life is serious, uneventful, rigid, indiscernible, and meaningless at times.

But on the Fourth of July I was able to escape and be part of that young couple's moment again, staring blissfully out at the lit up sky, holding each other without a care in the world. Only this time around, I don't ever want to find out who I truly am.

How perceptive this letter writer is.  I hope they find their freedom and "pep" again, if you have lost yours that you find it and if you still have it - for goodness sakes, don't let anyone take it away from you.  Here's to that glorious feeling of "Cluelesness."!